Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else. — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South. — Bob Jones, Sr Copy Share Image
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“A course we different! Everybody know colored people and white people ain't the same. But we still just people.” — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either. — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
“The thing to remeber is that more than anything in this world, these colored people wish they were white.” — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who are more snobbish than rich white people are… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“She'd been noticing the feet of colored people ever since she'd come south. "They've been pressed down to the earth so hard,"… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“This, Irene told her, was the year 1927 in the city of New York, and hundreds of white people of Hugh Wentworth’s… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
They dont want nobody thats colored out of the lines. So Im late as a mother***er, colored people time. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
