#colored

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. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

— James Weldon Johnson

#colored #great #i #i think #many

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#acquainted #attendance #became #best #church

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. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#america #barred #battle #been #colored

She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white. ↗

— Shannon Celebi

#colored #race #race-america #race-relations #racism

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. ↗

— Althea Gibson

#bus #carolina #colored #downtown #england

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done. ↗

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

#colored #done #education #elementary #higher

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens. ↗

— Ville Valo

#aspects #back #being #bit #colored

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else. ↗

— Gideon Welles

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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. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#blacks #bursting #charm #colored #colors