Prefer Green

Famous quotes containing the words prefer and/or green:

“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)

“the absolute flight and rest
The universal blue
And local green suggest.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)