SQL & PL/SQL

Hi friends

I can Query a data

select * from employees where hire_date > '01-JAN-1995' -- Here it returns 10 row

My doubt

BEGIN
execute immediate ' create table xxx 
as (select * from employees where  hire_date > '01-JAN-1995')' ;

END ;

I am Getting Error
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "01" when expecting one of the following:

Executing DDL is plsql should be passed as String but how can i pass my date datatype ?

Thanks
Suresh