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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