Black Creek Pioneer

Famous quotes containing the words black, creek and/or pioneer:

    “... the whole day to live through,
    steadfast, deep, interior.
    After the death,
    after the black of black,
    this lightness
    not to die, not die....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
    —State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)

    “I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.”
    —Edna Ferber (1887–1968)