"It's no disgrace to be colored," the black entertainer Bert Williams famously observed early in the century, "but it is awfully inconvenient."

“作为有色人种并不丢脸，”黑人表演者伯特·威廉姆斯在本世纪初有一句很著名的评论中提到，“但是身为有色人种会极其不方便。”