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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Vincent Van Gogh

Positive Day Night Think Alive

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

Sojourner Truth

Men Women You Great

While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

Best Sacrifice Friends White

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.

Queen Long Hands Way

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Albert Einstein

Today Memory Events Because

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

Battle White Fighting Race

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Fight Long Patriotism Soldier

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

Frederick Douglass

Man Political Safety Party

Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Man War Today Black

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

Men White Free Always

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The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Man Singing Know Like

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

Christmas War I Am Dead

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Good Time Trust You

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

Art Experience Long Perfect

I was the first to wear colored skinny jeans.

Wear Skinny Jeans First

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

Time You Black Red

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

Men Women Waiting White

The cat eye is one of my favorites to rock because you can do so much with it from a thicker, bold look to the thin, simple black line. I sometimes even step it up a notch by adding colored liner or glitter to keep it fun and unique!

Simple You Black Look

Some people, like myself, rock colored contacts, crazy hair, and black all year round.

Myself People Black Crazy

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

Life Day Character You

If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like, 'Don't drink out of the colored fountain, dear, it's dirty.' In the white part of town, the white fountain was always covered with chewing gum and the marks of grubby kids' paws, and the colored fountain was always clean.

You White Drink Always

Seeing lights being put up along the street and these colored lanterns called parols being put up at people's houses makes Christmas in Philippines magical.

Christmas People Lights Street

The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses and sandwiches and colored umbrellas, as if the water - blue, green, gray, navy or silver as it might be - were enough to watch.

Sea Water Green Blue

In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room... There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.

Men Women Waiting White

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

Life Best Humor Looking

I always wear colored prescription contacts for my looks.

Looks Wear Always Prescription

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