Colored Children

Famous quotes containing the words colored and/or children:

“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs,
whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)