Famous quotes containing the words light, colored and/or concrete:
“I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“...you don’t have to be as good as white people, you have to be better or the best. When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you’re average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he’d be washing dishes somewhere.”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)
“Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.”
—Zeno Vendler (b. 1921)