Colored Quotes

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.

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.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

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.