Colored Children

Famous quotes containing the words colored and/or children:

    “See, I’m so light, it don’t seem right
    to go to the colored rest room;
    my daughter’s brown, and folks frown on that in Texas,
    I just don’t know how to go to the bathroom in the free world!”
    —Ray Durem (1915–1963)

    “He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)