For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too. '
There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. And, I do not intend to be quiet about it.
Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.
This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.
And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.
The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.
I think that our experiences are quite often colored by our cultural and religious beliefs.
We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling. . . How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?
I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.
The destiny of the colored American. . . is the destiny of America.
Please stop using the word "Negro. ". . . We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.
I said Yo Jay, I can rap. And I spit this rap that said I'm killin' ya'll *****s on this lyrical sh*t, mayonnaise colored benz, I push miracle whips.
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background. . . . . . . . Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again. " How It Feels to Be Colored Me
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.
The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers.