Colored Quotes
390 quotes by 318 authors
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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 love each other.
— Josephine Baker
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.
— Maria Konopnicka
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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
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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
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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
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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.
— James Weldon Johnson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue....
— William C. Bryant
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Colored Quotes
318 authors contributed a total of 390 Colored Quotes, led by these top contributors: