Light Colored

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or colored:

“One stick of kindling alone will not light a fire.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)