World Colored Heavyweight

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or colored:

    This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,
    And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro;
    Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

    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)