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   Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.  1989.
 
 
NUMBER:118
AUTHOR:Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908–72)
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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