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Last updated on November 26, 2024.
Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.
The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.
I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
On vacation in Indonesia, I ran out of skin-colored zinc, so I used green, and locals called me Hulk.
The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers.
Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
Nowadays everyone's got the nose rings and the colored hair, so for me to wear the suit and tie is a different way to go.
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.
Some people, like myself, rock colored contacts, crazy hair, and black all year round.
It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
I want to pull very long, multi-colored strings out of my brain and place them next to a bowl of Doritos at a party
Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.
In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
In saffron-colored mantle from the tides
Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light
TO gods and men.
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.
The tobacco markets I worked in were segregated. If you went to the bathroom, there was 'White,' there was 'Colored,' and there was 'Other.' I grew up in that.
A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.
Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.
It's hard to take off the rose colored glasses because I like to enjoy my life to the fullest with a light heart and believe everyone is kind.
A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.
And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.
I often say that eggs and sugar should be beaten until they thicken and pale and sometimes, when there are lots of yolks, that's lemon colored.
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.
You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.
The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!
The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.
I've colored my hair so many times, and nobody tells you the damage it's going to do! I went blonde and lost all my baby hairs. I'm not coloring it anymore. Never again.
I have always been fascinated with precious stones, especially colored ones, and knew that I would eventually join the family business and be a jewelry designer some day.
Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.
Mr. Tillerson's obsession with downsizing our diplomacy has colored his time at the State Department.
A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.
My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in ways I'm still discovering!
Prana (life energy) colored by the tought of the sender may be projected to persons at a distance, who are willing to receive it, and the healing can be done this way.
Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly priced objects.
Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.
I had a year-round Christmas tree with nothing but colored vinyl 45s hanging on it, like, old Elvis records and stuff.
The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.
It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.
Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.
The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.
