White Pines

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or pines:

“Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death.... I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.”
—Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)

“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)