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  • Disillusioned words like bullets bark 
 As human gods aim for their marks. 
 Make everything from toy guns that spark 
 To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark. 
 It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.
  • 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.
  • I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
  • Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
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  • Booker T. Washington There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
    My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • James Baldwin At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bob Dylan Disillusioned words like bullets bark
    As human gods aim for their marks.
    Make everything from toy guns that spark
    To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark.
    It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Arna Bontemps How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
    Arna Bontemps
    American poet, novelist and librarian
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  • Bert Williams I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
    Bert Williams
    American entertainer and comedian (1874 - 1922)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Albert Einstein Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events .
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Germaine Greer Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Plato These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Barbara von Krüdener Those are poets who write thoughts as fragrant as flowers, and in as many-colored words.
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  • Kofi Annan We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
    Twitter (2016)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Angelina Grimke 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.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • 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.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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