Colored Man Quotes
- 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 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
- The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the… — Ida B. Wells
- Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black… — Langston Hughes
- The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage,… — Jessie Redmon Fauset
- One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything. — Oscar Micheaux
- The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he… — Ulysses S. Grant
- The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no… — Timothy Thomas Fortune
- I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America. — Bert Williams