Color Quotes - page 55

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake. (Gordon Parks)
We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. View quote
Nathan Bedford Forrest
All eyes do not see alike. Even the visible creation is not, for all who look upon it, of one form and one color. View quote
Albert Pike
The only color I don't have is navy brown. View quote
Yogi Berra
Light, with its handmaiden color, was everywhere. View quote
Tad Williams
When we look back over the course of our nation's history, what we see again and again almost like clockwork are these predictable efforts by the wealthy elite to use race as a wedge. To pit poor whites against poor people of color for the benefit of the ruling elite. Many people don't realize that even slavery as an institution-the emergence of an all-Black system of slavery-was to a large extent the result of plantation owners deliberately trying to pit poor whites against poor Blacks. And ensure that poor whites would not join in any kind of resistance, movement, struggle, or revolt with poor Blacks... View quote
Michelle Alexander
Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in which the rules, laws, policies, structures of their lives virtually guarantee that they will remain trapped for life. View quote
Michelle Alexander
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. View quote
Jackson Pollock
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. View quote
Paul Gauguin
The world is always in a turmoil over skin color. The hatred that people feel, I'm not able to articulate it. View quote
Adrienne Kennedy
Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence. (James Hal Cone)
Being black in America has little to do with skin color. Being black means that your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body are where the dispossessed are. View quote
James Hal Cone
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green. . . . If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't. View quote
William Faulkner
A hack writer who would not have been considered a fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven sure-fire literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy. View quote
William Faulkner
For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness? View quote
John Steinbeck
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. View quote
Emma Watson
Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me. View quote
Will Smith
[...] Smart'n'Civ'lize ain't nothin' to do with the color o' the skin, nay. View quote
David Mitchell (author)
My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair. View quote
Julia Roberts
Black is not a color. View quote
Édouard Manet
Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity. (Édouard Manet)
To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion. View quote
Sandra Bullock
There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color – nothing – no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love. View quote
Sandra Bullock
When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. View quote
Doris Lessing
You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the color goes out of my life. View quote
Virginia Woolf