Negro Leagues

Famous quotes containing the words negro and/or leagues:

“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)

“Good news about someone never gets past the door, but bad news will travel a thousand leagues away.”
—Chinese proverb.