Pierre Monteux Quote

Told, during the days of segregation in the US, that he couldn't be served as he was trying to take breakfast at a restaurant "for colored folk", he insisted: "But we are colored, my dear. We are pink."

From Monteux, Fifi (1962). Everyone is Someone. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy. OCLC 602036672, pp. 13–15