Colored People

Famous quotes containing the words colored people, colored and/or people:

“The colored people arrive, sit firmly down,
Eat their Express Spaghetti, their T-bone steak,
Handling their steel and crockery with no clatter,
Laugh punily, rise, go firmly out of the door.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“There are three kinds of people:
White people, Colored people
and Black people.”
—Peter Abrahams (b. 1919)

“...the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 32:6.