"When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky"
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"Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next."
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"Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colors to all."
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"In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful."
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"The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin."
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"I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words."
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"I don't have a favorite director just like I don't have a favorite color or I don't have a favorite food. I like everything."
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"Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God."
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"It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've always been told is not for us. It's top down."
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"I don't think that there are as many black women or women of color becoming psychiatrists, so we can't find them and then we feel looked at and studied and that's part of what is damaging to us. It's hard to find therapy that is actually a tool for your own liberation. I think we can be really distrustful."
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"Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin."
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"I am busy with my work. My path is clear. I see somebody dying, I pick him up. I find somebody hungry, I give him food. He can love and be loved. I don't look at his color, I don't look at his religion."
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"Another reason for switching to color is world television. In a few years, it will all be in color, and you can't compete against that with black-and-white films."
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"Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks."
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"A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting."
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"Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color."
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"Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away."
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