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title: "30 Colored People Quotes by 23 authors"
description: "Browse 30 Colored People quotes by 23 authors. Discover the best Colored People sayings and thoughts."
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> [Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/some-colored-people-so-scared-of-whitefolks-they-claim-to-love-the/)

[Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/)

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> [The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gideon-welles/the-hopeless-grief-of-those-poor-colored-people-affected-me-more-than/)

[Gideon Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gideon-welles/)

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> [No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-jones-sr/no-nation-has-ever-prospered-or-been-blessed-like-the-colored-people/)

[Bob Jones, Sr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-jones-sr/)

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> [There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-weldon-johnson/there-are-a-great-many-colored-people-who-are-ashamed-of-the-cake/)

[James Weldon Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-weldon-johnson/)

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> [“A course we different! Everybody know colored people and white people ain't the same. But we still just people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathryn-stockett/a-course-we-different-everybody-know-colored-people-and-white-people/)

[Kathryn Stockett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathryn-stockett/)

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> [I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-feller/i-don-t-think-baseball-owes-colored-people-anything-i-don-t-think/)

[Bob Feller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-feller/)

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> [Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-sanger/colored-people-are-like-human-weeds-and-are-to-be-exterminated/)

[Margaret Sanger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-sanger/)

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> [“The thing to remeber is that more than anything in this world, these colored people wish they were white.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-sedaris/the-thing-to-remeber-is-that-more-than-anything-in-this-world-these/)

[David Sedaris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-sedaris/)

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> [The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/the-relation-between-the-white-and-colored-people-of-this-country-is/)

[Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d67/frederick-douglass-859_age_the-relation-between-the-white-and-color_932511.png)

> [“Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/up-until-then-i-d-thought-that-white-people-and-colored-people/)

[Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/)

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> [Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/poverty-ignorance-and-degradation-are-the-combined-evils-these/)

[Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorraine-hansberry/the-murchisons-are-honest-to-god-real-foe-rich-colored-people-and-the/)

[Lorraine Hansberry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorraine-hansberry/)

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> [I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-weldon-johnson/i-believe-it-to-be-a-fact-that-the-colored-people-of-this-country/)

[James Weldon Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-weldon-johnson/)

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> [“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,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paula-fox/she-d-been-noticing-the-feet-of-colored-people-ever-since-she-d-come/)

[Paula Fox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paula-fox/)

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> [In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/in-regard-to-the-colored-people-there-is-always-more-that-is/)

[Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/)

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> [There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/there-is-separation-of-colored-people-from-white-people-in-the-united/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/please-stop-using-the-word-negro-we-are-the-only-human-beings-in-the/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-church-terrell/)

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> [Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/calvin-coolidge/numbered-among-our-population-are-some-12-000-000-colored-people/)

[Calvin Coolidge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/calvin-coolidge/)

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> [“This, Irene told her, was the year 1927 in the city of New York, and hundreds of white people of Hugh Wentworth’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nella-larsen/this-irene-told-her-was-the-year-1927-in-the-city-of-new-york-and/)

[Nella Larsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nella-larsen/)

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> [Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-epstein/early-on-i-saw-the-plastic-quality-in-colored-people-and-had-friends/)

[Jacob Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-epstein/)

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> [... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-church-terrell/no-young-colored-person-in-the-united-states-today-can-truthfully/)

[Mary Church Terrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-church-terrell/)

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> [Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-monk-kidd/up-until-then-i-d-thought-that-white-people-and-colored-people-2/)

[Sue Monk Kidd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-monk-kidd/)

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> [I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-have-been-painting-white-people-for-much-longer-in-my-life-than-i/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [They dont want nobody thats colored out of the lines. So Im late as a mother\*\*\*er, colored people time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kanye-west/they-dont-want-nobody-thats-colored-out-of-the-lines-so-im-late-as-a/)

[Kanye West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kanye-west/)

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> [This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sojourner-truth/this-is-beautiful-indeed-the-colored-people-have-given-this-to-the/)

[Sojourner Truth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sojourner-truth/)

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> [The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-baker/the-hate-directed-against-the-colored-people-here-in-st-louis-has/)

[Josephine Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-baker/)

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> [The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-weldon-johnson/the-colored-people-of-this-country-know-and-understand-the-white/)

[James Weldon Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-weldon-johnson/)

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> [Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/four-hundred-million-in-india-and-millions-everywhere-have-told-you/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

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> [I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-baker/i-believe-if-the-white-and-colored-people-could-get-together-and-be/)

[Josephine Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josephine-baker/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b0/josephine-baker-12508_alone_i-believe-if-the-white-and-colored-peopl_2108977.png)

> [What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angelina-grimke/what-man-or-woman-of-common-sense-now-doubts-the-intellectual/)

[Angelina Grimke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angelina-grimke/)

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