There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the color of my skin.
Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.
You must have brought the bad weather with you The sky's the color of lead All you've left me is a feather On an unmade bed
How clumsily we love this world: looking into that vast darkness, waiting for the telescope to send down unseen colors of light.
When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!
Color is powerful. It is almost physiologically impossible to be in a bad mood when you're wearing bright red pants.
Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
Life can be just black and white, but with imagination, life is a kaleidoscope of exhilarating colors and breathtaking adventures.
I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
Si's beard is really awkward. One side is longer than the other, and it's about three different colors. I don't think he washes it. It's nasty.
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion.
For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - that's what I deeply loved.
We choose our sex, our color, our country, and then we look around for the particular set of parents who will mirror the pattern we are bringing in to work on in this lifetime.
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.
One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so they were always leading the women's movement.
We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
