When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.
Audre Lorde
WomenCultureColorPresentCreate
I have been really furious about the constant charges being lobbed against me about identity politics that, by the way, are only lobbed against women and candidates of color.
Ayanna Pressley
WomenPoliticsIdentityMeColor
It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination.
Rumaan Alam
ChildrenQualityImaginationColor
Families, community leaders, and others must create the public will to address the challenges facing black girls and other girls of color as well by listening to them, valuing their experiences, and becoming actively involved in creating policies and innovative programs that promote their well-being.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
CommunityChallengesListeningColor
Sometimes I feel edgy, sometimes I feel like I want to wear a bright, bold beautiful color.
Victoria Justice
BeautifulColorFeelBoldSometimes
I think that the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made me aware that a young black woman from the South could write about the South - was Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple,' which I read for the first time when I was in junior high.
Jesmyn Ward
TimeWomanMeBookColorThink
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.
Alice Walker
BookGiftColorFeelPurpleTrue
I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
Alberto Giacometti
WorkColorDoingIntentionNever
My favorite color is jungle green. At least, that's what it said on the side of my favorite crayon in first grade. I don't know if it's an official color.
Mike Posner
GreenColorJungleKnowSaidFirst
Our camps and workshops offer a space where girls of color can learn computer science and coding principles alongside their peers, with mentorship from female role models who have established themselves in tech fields where women, and minority women in particular, tend to be underrepresented.
Kimberly Bryant
WomenScienceSpaceColorLearn
I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
Verite
LiveNew YorkMeColorsColorBlack
The very formal, beautiful, composed order that I make with paint and color is freighted with objects, but like leaves falling from a tree onto a lawnmower below, the edges of this 'thing' have a certain serendipity.
Jessica Stockholder
BeautifulTreeColorFallingPaint
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
William Safire
WordsWelcomeColorResultNewMore
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.
Wes Craven
PeopleLookingColorThinkKind
Gap was essentially the American wardrobe that was well-priced, and it was attractive, and it was happy, and it had great color, and it has jeans, and I think we did the same with Old Navy. And I think we do the same with J.Crew at a much higher level, Madewell at another level.
Mickey Drexler
GreatHappyColorThinkAmerican
I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.
Khloe Kardashian
PeopleColorBlackThinkCareYou
One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
Tananarive Due
ColorPlaceNewKnowTrueHorror
You know, post-production is a bit of a grind to me. If I'm producing a film, I really... I mean I like editing, but all the other crap, the color mixing and... it's all a grind. And so as a result I cut back producing the number of films I was producing.
John C. McGinley
MeColorResultYouBackGrind
The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
Piet Mondrian
TimeSpaceColorRhythmSizeMakes
I feel that confidence in women - especially young girls of color - but women, in general, is so important. It is so important for us to arm ourselves and become powerful at a very young age.
Viola Davis
ConfidenceWomenAgeColorPowerful
People are swept into the criminal justice system - particularly in poor communities of color - at very early ages... typically for fairly minor, nonviolent crimes.
Michelle Alexander
JusticePeopleColorEarlyPoor
I have different privileges because I am a man, and I have to acknowledge that and realize that another person of color who is also a woman is having a different experience than I am.
Justin Simien
ExperienceWomanManI AmColorWho
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
ManColorBlindKnowHimBeen
I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.
Jennifer Gilmore
MotherI AmBabyColorLookHiding
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