Colored People Quotes

32 quotes by 25 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
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
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them. — James Weldon Johnson
You and I both know, deep in your heart, you agree with me. And I will prove it with one hypothetical scenario: you are alone… — Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.
So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, itâ€™s extremely tacky and datedâ€”like an old aunt who still talks about â€˜colored peopleâ€™ or… — David Plotz
A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody… — Elvis Presley
Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or… — John Brown
What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as… — Angelina Grimke
Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated. — Margaret Sanger
No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South. — Bob Jones, Sr.
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville. — James Weldon Johnson
I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need… — Timothy Thomas Fortune
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it. — Woodrow Wilson
There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a… — Albert Einstein
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it. — James Weldon Johnson
The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to… — Josephine Baker
In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of… — Henry Louis Gates
On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd… — Gideon Welles
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else. — Gideon Welles

Who Wrote These Colored People Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 32 Colored People Quotes as follows: