"And this is for Colored girls who have……" — Ntozake Shange
"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows."
More Colored Quotes
- I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand 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… — Pearl S. Buck
- Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a… — Chuck Close
- White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became… — Susan B. Anthony
- I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes. — Unknown Author
- It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation… — Pearl S. Buck
- We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white… — Langston Hughes
- When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in… — Kristin Hunter
- The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand… — James Weldon Johnson