| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 118 |
| AUTHOR: | Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (190872) |
| QUOTATION: | Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, colored men looking for loans and whites who understand the Negro. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR., The Soapbox, The New York Amsterdam News, June 6, 1936, p. 12.
Powell wrote a weekly column, The Soapbox. |
| SUBJECTS: | Blacks |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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