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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!

~Dove Cameron

Topics: Artists Both Brain Colored Cook Discovering Father Mother Personality Pianist Still Ways Who

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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.

~Edmonia Lewis

Topics: Art Atmosphere Color Colored Constantly Culture Driven Find Had Land Liberty Obtain Opportunities Order Practically Reminded Rome Room Sculptor Social Where

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Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

~Edmonia Lewis

Topics: Am Because Colored Defects Girl Had Kind Me Out Point Praise Rather Some Something Teach Want Will Would You I Am

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The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

~Elvis Presley

Topics: Been Colored Doin Folks Got Just Know Like Man More Now Playing Singing Than Them Years

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After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

~Ethel Waters

Topics: After Annoyed Cheering Colored Dreaded Houses Me Noise Now Something Theaters Whistling White Working Years Young

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When I was born, my mother said all the nurses wanted to come see the colored baby.

~Fantastic Negrito

Topics: Baby Born Colored Come Mother Nurses Said See Wanted I Was Born

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I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

~Frederick Douglass

Topics: Anchor Ark Colored His Hopes Man Party Political Recognize Republican Republican Party Safety Sheet

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Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.

~Gary Krist

Topics: Accounts Civil Civil War Colored Dramas Extent Left Neglected Often Personal Politics Popular Something War Were West Which Wild Wild West

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My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Colored Done First Museum Play Public Theater

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If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Aristocracy Colored Divine Earth History Idea Mankind Mean Melt Only Race Races Rejoice Should Triumph White Whole World Would

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