#colored

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

— Don Van Vliet

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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. ↗

— Yoko Ono

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Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made. ↗

— Tim Reid

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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

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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

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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

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

— Dennis Rodman

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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. ↗

— David Antin

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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

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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. ↗

— Kerry Washington

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