- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and White waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.
- Brightly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember going with my parents to weddings where the women would arrive covered in black veils, but underneath, they'd be wearing the most exquisite brightly colored Dolce & Gabbana suits. They were like peacocks showing off their tails.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.
- Different Parts
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the canvass in the State of Mississippi, I traveled into different parts of that state, and this is the doctrine that I everywhere uttered: that while I was in favor of building up the colored race, I was not in favor of tearing down the white race.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go to the depot here, now, and what will you see? A well-dressed colored lady, with her little children by her side, whom she has brought up intelligently and with refinement, as much so as white children, comes to the cars, and where is she shown to? Into the smoking car, where men are cursing, swearing, spitting on the floor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have the colored people done anything to justify the prejudice against them that does exist in the hearts of so many white persons and, generally, of one great political party in this country? Have they done anything to justify it? No, sir.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got colored mechanics in the United States Navy Yard for the first time.
- Framed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of the North owe to the colored race a deep obligation that is no easy matter to fulfill.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned to play the git-tar from an old colored man in the streets of Montgomery. He was named Tetot, and he played in a colored street band.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020