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: | Powell wrote a weekly column, “The Soapbox.” |
| SUBJECTS: | Blacks |