Delany

Famous quotes containing the word delany:

    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)

    I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.
    —Sarah Louise Delany (b. 1889)

    You are not a doctor of dentistry! You are a doctor of segregation!
    —Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)