Light Colored

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or colored:

“Now God be praised, that to believing souls
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Please stop using the word “Negro.”... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.”
—Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)