Colored Girls

Famous quotes containing the words colored and/or girls:

    “Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.”
    —Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)

    “Voice number one says,
    “I am the leaves. I am the martyred.
    Come unto me with death for I am the siren.
    I am forty young girls in green shells....””
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)