Top Colored Quotes
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
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Frederick Douglass
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out.
Timothy Thomas Fortune
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
All Colored Quotes
Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.
Abraham Zapruder 
54% of people like this quote
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
Pearl S. Buck 
53% of people like this quote
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 
53% of people like this quote
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent Van Gogh 
53% of people like this quote
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
Orison Swett Marden 
52% of people like this quote
Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.
Paul Robeson 
52% of people like this quote
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
Arna Bontemps 
52% of people like this quote
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
Dennis Rodman 
51% of people like this quote
Popular Colored Authors
Albert EinsteinGilbert K. ChestertonOrison Swett MardenJohn F. KennedyNapoleon BonaparteElvis PresleyDennis RodmanPearl S. BuckVincent Van GoghEthel WatersPlacido DomingoDavid AntinFrederick DouglassJames Weldon JohnsonHenry A. Wallace
Robert RauschenbergVille ValoNat King ColeWendell WillkieSusan B. AnthonyPaul RobesonShania TwainChuck CloseLewis TappanHarriet TubmanAngelina GrimkeBob FellerGuido van RossumTim ReidAlthea Gibson
More » 
Gideon Welles
Tim Reid
Ethel Waters
Susan B. Anthony
Bob Feller
Napoleon Bonaparte
Dennis Rodman