Red States

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or states:

    “Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
    For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,
    Mournful that no new wonder may betide,
    Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,
    And Usna’s children died.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)