Colored Disk Toss

Famous quotes containing the words colored, disk and/or toss:

    “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)

    “Unloved, that beech will gather brown,
    This maple burn itself away;

    Unloved, the sun-flower, shining fair,
    Ray round with flames her disk of seed,
    And many a rose-carnation feed
    With summer spice the humming air;”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “There, do not start,
    child, nor toss about;
    only calm and high pride
    can help your hurt:
    fate tries all alike.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)