"I know what every colored woman in this……" — Toni Morrison

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• 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

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