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"I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color."
"Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned."
"There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are."
"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."
"I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing."
"Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin."
"Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void"
"She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise."
"Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest promise of better things to come."
"There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors."
"There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?"
"Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference."
"The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum."
"Emotions are the color of the soul."
"Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony."
"'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists only of atoms and the void; all else is opinion and illusion. If the soul exists, it also consists of atoms."
"Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do."
"The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition."
"Colors express the main psychic functions of man."
"If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful."
