Colored Children

Famous quotes containing the words colored and/or children:

“I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn’t occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that’s all!”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)

“Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)