Famous quotes containing the words colored and/or tree:
“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mothers side was not an Indian chief.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)
“Like to the tree of Tantalus she fled,
And seeming lavish, savde her maydenhead.
Nere king more sought to keepe his diademe;
Than Hero this inestimable gemme.”
—Christopher Marlowe (15641593)
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