I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
CLAUDETTE COLVINI never swore when I was young.
More Claudette Colvin Quotes
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When you’ve been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.
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We were churchgoing people.
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A lot of African American women wanted to emulate white women. But I said in my mind, rationally thinking, there is no way you are going to get your hair that straight, especially in the summer.
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That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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A lot has changed since I grew up, but there’s still a long way to go. I don’t think we can move forward with Donald Trump as the president. There’s a disconnect there. We don’t want to regress, we want progress.
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As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.
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When I told my mother I was pregnant, I thought she was going to have a heart attack.
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There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn’t even go into the same restaurants.
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I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.
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I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.
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What do we have to do to make God love us?’ I always grew up with that. I always used to go around thinking that. ‘God loved the white people better. He must’ve. That’s why he made them white.’
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Rosa Parks wasn’t the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.
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I’d like my grandchildren to be able to see that their grandmother stood up for something, a long time ago.
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For African-Americans, it’s still going to be – some people say double hard – I’d say four times as hard. Be an opportunist. Take advantage of your resources, because the only way to win is with education, self-esteem, having value in yourself.
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The light-skinned girls always thought they were better looking. So did the teachers, too. That meant most of the dark complexion ones didn’t like themselves.
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