Southern Gulf Islands

Famous quotes containing the words southern, gulf and/or islands:

“Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaf and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin’ in the poplar trees.”
—Billie Holiday [Eleanor Fagan] (1915–1959)

“His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.”
—J.P. (John Phillips)

“we are so many
and many within themselves
travel to far islands but no one
asks for their story....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)