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"In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color."
"If you don't know what color to take, take black."
"I get a lot of questions about hair color. People are very into talking about hair."
"As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer."
"Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color."
"The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same creative energy could be used to eradicate the color line; then its days would indeed be numbered."
"The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting."
"There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing."
"We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line."
"Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is see in ripe plums? If she always sees backward and upside down without knowing it what chance do we have? I am haunted by the feeling that she is saying melting lords of death, avalanches, rivers and moments of passing through, And I am replying, "Yes, yes. Shoes and pudding."
"Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to see those colors clearly."
"Color don't tell if people Black. It's the soul."
"There are so many untold stories when it comes to great women of color."
"For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it."
"I adore Smashbox lip stains. I carry a natural color for daytime and a berry shade for going out at night."
"We are all God's people. We are prejudiced and we separate into Jews, Mexicans, Italians, but God doesn't see colors."
"There isn't a color that I dislike. I think that every color has its own charm."
"I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person."
"Everybody's the same color with the lights off."
"I don't know the difference between a warm color and a cool one."
