"And can all flowers talk?"
     "As well as you can," said the Tiger-lily."And a great deal louder."
     "It isn't manners for us to begin, you know," said the Rose,"and I really was wondering
     when you'd speak! Said I to myself, Her face has got some sense in it, though it's not a
     clever one! Still, you're the right color, and that goes a long way." (Through the Looking
     Glass p.121)

Alice's seemingly nonsensical conversation with the flowers might be Carroll satirizing Victorian
society's superficial attitudes toward race and class, which considered blacks and members of the
lower class to be" unreasonable, irrational," and "easily excited childlike creatures having no
religion but only superstition."