Moore/people

Famous quotes containing the words moore and/or people:

“a place as kind as it is green,
the greenest place I’ve never seen.
Every name is a tune.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

“I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn’t occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that’s all!”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)