coloured quotes

Race prejudice isnot onlya shadowover the coloredit is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

- Pearl ne  e Sydenstricker Buck
  What  America Means To Me, ch.1.

As a matter of racial pride we want to be called blacks. Which has replaced the term Afro-American.Which replaced Negroes.Which replaced colored people. Which replaced darkies.Which replaced blacks.

-Jules Feiffer
Quoted in William Safire Language Maven Strikes  Again (1990).

'It's powerful,' he said. 'What?' 'That one drop of Negro bloodbecause just one drop of black blood makes a man coloured. One dropyou are a Negro!'

- (James Mercer) Langston Hughes
  Simple Takes a Wife.

For coloured girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.

- Ntozake originally Paulette Williams Shange
  Title of 'choreo-poem'.