Famous quotes containing the words red, black and/or tree:
“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The fact that white people readily and proudly call themselves white, glorify all that is white, and whitewash all that is glorified, becomes unnatural and bigoted in its intent only when these same whites deny persons of African heritage who are Black the natural and inalienable right to readilyproudlycall themselves black, glorify all that is black, and blackwash all that is glorified.”
—Abbey Lincoln (b. 1930)
“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest oer the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
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