"I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they change their colors."
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"The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history."
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"But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing."
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"I play Hank Hansen, a real guy. Youd be amazed at how much information they have on this guy: personality traits, nicknames, favorite color, you name it."
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"When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life among the dead. Such are the anxious and fearful contemplations of the common observer, though the popular religion often prevents him from confessing them even to himself."
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"When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking."
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"Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry."
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"Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise."
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"...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom. And lay down at the feet of the demon. And looked at him steadily in the face."
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"In an era when America is still too divided by race and by riches, Judge [Samuel] Alito has not written one single opinion on the merits in favor of a person of color alleging race discrimination on the job: in 15 years on the bench, not one."
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"Oh, I love red. I'm very loyal to my colors. I love violet."
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"A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels."
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"A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step Or Noons report away Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay - A quality of loss Affecting our Content As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament."
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"The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda."
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"I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it's nice to be able to play with color and not just wear black all the time. I can save that for when I'm older."
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"The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was."
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"Lighting is everything in a color."
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"When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery."
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"Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of."
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"I'm halfway around the world with dozens of bags, feeling like all 4 members of Color Me Badd."
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