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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright
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"Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:---touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am's private own: not spirit, soul; the liquorish and ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any any darkened hallway of this earthly tenement. But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too."

Fall Cutting Color
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break."

Passion Kings Color
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object."

Eye Creative Color
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"I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones."

Color Painting Bones
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they are gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are making towards their re- establishment on an equal footing with the other colors of the human family."

Rights Color Hopeful
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Tim Scott Politician
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"I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin."

Country Character Color
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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
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"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color."

Life Wisdom Color
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Robert Henri Artist
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"Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit."

Giving Two Color
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Robert Warren Author
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"Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to each other can be an accident waiting to happen."

Light Dark Color
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Stephen Schwartz Composer
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"You think the only people who are people, Are the ones who look and think the way you do, But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, You'll learn the things you never knew you never knew... You can own the Earth and still, All you'll own is earth until You can paint with all the colors of the wind."

Thinking Color Wind
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