Southern State University

Famous quotes containing the words southern, state and/or university:

    “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)

    “However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.”
    —Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)

    “I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)