Colored Quotes

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

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Today
  • Memory
  • Events

• Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Girl
  • Teach
  • Praise

• It will have to be a universal movement, and that will never be... because the big-league game, as it is now, is overrun with Southern blood. These fellows would have to stop at the same hotels, eat in the same dining rooms, and sleep in the same train compartments with the colored players. There'd be trouble for sure.

  

  Jud Wilson
  • Movement
  • Players
  • Colored

• All perception is colored by emotion.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Emotion
  • Perception
  • Colored

• 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 disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • United States
  • White

• I'm just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I'm crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Lady
  • Spine
  • Fused

• One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Population
  • Slaves
  • Colored

• Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

  

  Ntozake Shange
  • Woman
  • Alive
  • Colored

• When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere.

  

  Annie Elizabeth Delany
  • White
  • Negroes
  • Dan Quayle

• Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

  

  Josephine Baker
  • Democracy
  • Treat
  • Colored

• I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn't occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that's all!

  

  Annie Elizabeth Delany
  • Words
  • Negro
  • African-American

• I had a year-round Christmas tree with nothing but colored vinyl 45s hanging on it, like, old Elvis records and stuff.

  

  John Prine
  • Christmas
  • Records
  • Hanging

• I don't think of myself as being colored but of being Australian.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Don't Think
  • Australian
  • Colored