all cats are grey at night
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Proverb[edit]
- (UK) Alternative form of all cats are grey in the dark
- 1937, Arnold Gingrich, “Another Salute to the Living”, in Esquire, volume 8, number 3, page 5:
- No matter how capable and cultivated the mind, how subtle and sensitive the spirit, the individual Negro is still not free. "All cats are grey at night," and it is still long hours to go before dawn, over much of America. They order these things better in France. Double the honor, then, when a Negro succeeds, for half the strength of his genius must be spent in raising himself to the level of his inferiors, in overcoming the handicap of color.