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Seth Musician
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"My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color."

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Sharon Stone Actress
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"I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very mod stage. I wear false lashes and color on my eyelids. I'm really liking shiny eyelids in copper, rose, gold, or silver."

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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger."

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"then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses."

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Malala Yousafzai Activist, Author
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"We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, colour, religion or agenda to ensure freedom and equality for women so they can flourish. We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds."

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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"Love doesn't have any color. Other people may discriminate against us, but what is more important is whether we discriminate against them. If we don't do that, we are a happier person, and as a happier person, we are in a position to help. And anger, this is not a help."

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Leslie Jordan Actor, Comedian
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"People are realizing that being gay is just as defining as the color of our skin and it's not a choice. I'm really encouraged. I think in my lifetime we will achieve equality. I'm honored to be a part of it."

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Henry Louis Gates Scholar, Historian
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"Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with."

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Lewis Gordon Philosopher
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"When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke."

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Jim Brown Football Player
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"The three greatest people in my life as a young person were white, my high school superintendent, my high school coach and a - I graduate in Manhasset High, Kenneth Molloy who's a mentor to yours truly.I'm not a person that really deal in color."

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Joe Hill Labor Activist, Songwriter
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"I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probably check on the intertube and find out what color underwear I have on today."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us."

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"It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days."

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"Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"The colors of light are infinite through refraction, yet they all come from the same source. Thus I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul, nor fail to identify with the most virtuous."

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