Colored Diamonds

Famous quotes containing the words colored and/or diamonds:

    “Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man’s wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.”
    —Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

    “I met a traveler from Arkansas
    Who boasted of his state as beautiful
    For diamonds and apples.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)