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"Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women."
"What I need most of all is color, always, always."
"The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever."
"I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds ."
"Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors."
"They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read."
"Achievement has no color"
"When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk."
"I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth."
"Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure."
"Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic."
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
"When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!"
"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color."
"Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color any situation."
"Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color."
"Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility."
"A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age."
"Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality."
"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."
