Colored Pencils

Famous quotes containing the words colored and/or pencils:

    “Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man’s wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.”
    —Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

    “My vocabulary dwells deep in my mind and needs paper to wriggle out into the physical zone. Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle. I have rewritten—often several times—every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)