Colored Quotes - page 2

From the walls of Baidi high in the colored dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away. (Li Bai)
I know what every colored woman in this country is doing.... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I'm going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world. View quote
Toni Morrison
I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations. View quote
Placido Domingo
All you are seeing is your own nostalgia for your girlhood trips up here into the hills, which were no doubt colored with the pleasantries of youth and idealism, which is-won't you admit it?-finally just a form of ignorance. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95. View quote
Dennis Rodman
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records - Bessie, bop, or Bach. I guess being colored doesn't make me not like the same things other folks like who are other races. View quote
Langston Hughes
Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food. View quote
Austin O'Malley
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment. (Wendell Willkie)
Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them. View quote
Reginald Rose
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 any point of view. As you know, there is no scientific basis for the separation of the bloods of different races except on the basis of the individual blood types or groups. View quote
Charles R. Drew
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 a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it. View quote
Angelina Grimke
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. View quote
Angelina Grimke
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. View quote
Arna Bontemps
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience. View quote
David Antin
Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk. View quote
Donald Sadoway
After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded. View quote
Ethel Waters
If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray. View quote
Madeleine M. Kunin
Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs. (Olivia Williams)
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time. View quote
Harriet Tubman
The time has passed for argument. Nothing more need be said. For a long time it has been clear that colored persons must be senators. View quote
Charles Sumner
I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings. View quote
Albert Hofmann
I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white, besides me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity. I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea lies before you. View quote
Kazimir Malevich