Famous quotes containing the words english and/or term:
“Death is a shadow that always follows the body.”
—14th-century English proverb.
“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)