Colored Quotes

390 quotes by 318 authors

I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other. — Josephine Baker
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those… — Pearl S. Buck
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how… — Chuck Close
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both… — Susan B. Anthony
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes. — Maria Konopnicka
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its… — Pearl S. Buck
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are… — Langston Hughes
When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on… — Kristin Hunter
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them. — James Weldon Johnson
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves… — Abraham Lincoln
I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from… — Charles R. Drew
The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into… — Thurgood Marshall
I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue.... — William C. Bryant
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was… — Abraham Lincoln
In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences. — J. B. Priestley

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