"New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing."
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"It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated."
"Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now."
"The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer."
"Who says soul has only one colour?"
"All colours are arbitrary."
"I'm from east LA. I don't see colour."
"You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life."
"The sky was the colour of sad weddings."
"Colours are what drive me most strongly."
"Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour."
"I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare."
"Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it."
"Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour."
"The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays."
"Colour itself is a degree of darkness."
"I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work."
"Golden is a surface colour."