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"No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America."
"One important thing I take away daily is that for all the talk about what youth are not doing - especially young people of color - I know there are many who do care about their future, who are striving to affect their world in a positive way."
"These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that animate, absorb and saturate the subject, like indelible dyes spilled repeatedly over a plain fabric. No matter if the fabric is sturdy or delicate, translucent or opaque, those dyes will stain. They will color the days and years and life."
"mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors."
"Colors are beautiful when they are significant."
"Nothing's too girly and nothing's too masculine. But I do love color, and maybe that's a little girly - especially pink."
"When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights."
"I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers."
"A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian. If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?"
"86% of its audience was made up of people of color. That tells you that the full potential of many black stars won't be realized until their audiences are fully integrated."
"Because we all come from different circumstances, our life experiences really color how we view things."
"Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles."
"Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color? Have you ever committed culpable homicide? Have you ever bombed anything? Have you ever murdered anyone? Have you ever kidnapped anyone?"
"The statement is that I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time."
"I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me."
"It's so hard to do fittings [for Yeezy] because we want to do things that are inspiring, that people could look at and say, "Wow, I like that color palette, I could put that together." And there are so many images of things that it's almost impossible to have your clothes go up against the amount you're seeing and carry it into one language."
"I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that."
"Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning."
"In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing."
"Her son lives. He has her eyes, precisely her eyes. You remember the shape and color of Lily Evans's eyes, I am sure?"
