> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Weekend Words: Brown
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-brown/
- Published: 2015-02-22T14:52:48.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:31:52.000Z
- Description: Now that Kate Brown has ascended to the governorship relinquished by the scandal-plagued John Kitzhaber, the neighboring states of Oregon and California each have a governor named Brown.
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/02/brown.jpg)

József Rippl-Rónai, “Self-Portrait in a Brown Hat” (1897), oil on cardboard, 64 x 88 cm, Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest (image via Web Gallery of Art)

Now that Kate Brown has ascended to the governorship relinquished by the scandal-plagued John Kitzhaber, the neighboring states of Oregon and California each have a governor named Brown.

> I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.  
>  
> **—Sir Winston Churchill**

> Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth — well, it’s like brown — it’s not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.  
>  
> **—Iris Murdoch**

> I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,  
> Floating, like a vapor, on the soft summer air.  
>  
> **—Stephen Foster, “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”**

> Oh, good gigantic smile o’ the brown old earth,  
> This autumn morning!  
>  
> **—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “James Lee’s Wife”**

> A cup of coffee – real coffee – home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.  
>  
> **—Henry Ward Beecher**

> We have a beautiful  
> mother  
> Her green lap  
> immense  
> Her brown embrace  
> eternal  
> Her blue body  
> everything  
> we know.  
>  
> **—Alice Walker, “We Have a Beautiful Mother”**

> The gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.  
>  
> **—Thomas Babington, “Samuel Johnson”**

> I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.  
>  
> **—John Brown**

> Buy a book in brown paper  
> From Faber and Faber  
> To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper.  
> Sevensinns in her singthings,  
> Plurabelle on her prose,  
> Seashell ebb music wayriver she flows.  
>  
> **—James Joyce**