#colored

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. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#annoyed #cheering #colored #dreaded #hadn

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

— Arna Bontemps

#anyone #colored #critic #dare #how

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#altogether #bed #ceiling #colored #draw

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#better #colored #country #fact #i

The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#beneficial #brethren #colored #country #effect

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

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. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#advice #ask #changes #colored #course

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#always #became #both #colored #controlled

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic. ↗

— Susan Blackmore

#basic #certainly #colored #down #everything

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#always #appeal #circumstances #colored #desire