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)

    “O Jesse had a wife, a mourner all her life
    And the children they were brave,
    But the dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard
    He laid Jesse James in his grave.”
    —Administration in the State of Miss, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)