Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.
Alice Walker
NatureGodColorEarthPurpleFail
Having a mom as a hairdresser was really awesome: I was always her test dummy. I've had every style, every color you could imagine.
Alessia Cara
StyleMomColorYouTestAwesome
I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.
Mary J. Blige
MusicWordsJoyTearsColorYou
When I started Black Girls Code in 2011, there weren't any programs that had a foundation in communities of color to teach our kids about technology.
Kimberly Bryant
TechnologyColorFoundationBlack
I wear clothes reflecting the color of my soul!
Varg Vikernes
SoulColorMy SoulClothesWear
My Nike Free sneakers add a splash of color and slide on fast, perfect for when I'm rushing to catch the school bus. And my favorite cargos are skinny but stretchy, so I can go up or down a few pounds and they still fit!
Jessica Seinfeld
SchoolFreeColorPerfectSneakers
Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.
Wynton Marsalis
StyleEyeColorInterestingArtist
I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.
William Eggleston
ArtMeColorMuseumModernWorking
The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.
Mickey Drexler
WalkColorYouFirstSeeStore
I just love matching sets. Tops and bottoms that are the same color are awesome to me, because you can get them in so many different colors - neon colors.
Khalid
LoveMeColorsColorYouMatching
I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.
Tananarive Due
WorkYourselfPeopleColorStory
The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.
John Burroughs
GrowthGreatBirdWiseFreeColor
Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.
William Hamilton
WeatherColorBadConcrete
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
Viola Davis
WomenOpportunityColorEveryone
The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class and upper-middle-class African Americans, creates the illusion of great progress.
Michelle Alexander
GreatProgressPeopleActionColor
'Color-blind' comes up - people say 'Oh, I'm color-blind and therefore can't be accused of racism,' but I think that if we are going to have an honest dialogue about racism, we have to admit that people of color are having a different experience.
Justin Simien
ExperienceRacismPeopleColorThink
Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
Randall Kennedy
IdentityHairFeetColorLipsSkin
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.
Joel Sternfeld
WorkMyselfMeColorLovedSuicide
I think people just don't respect women's bodies in general, the bodies of women of color in general.
Phoebe Robinson
WomenRespectPeopleColorThink
It's important, as a young person of color, to see yourself reflected in the media.
Teyonah Parris
YourselfColorMediaPersonYoung
Women of color have always been kind of boxed in by the idea that the more you talk about the misogyny of your own community, the more you make that community look bad.
Mona Eltahawy
WomenCommunityColorYouLookBad
Growing up, it was always a huge battle with my mom to let me color my hair or add extensions.
Justine Skye
MeMomGrowing UpHairColorBattle
Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
Sam Francis
LightColorDarkBorn
I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.
Jenny Han
HopeHeroPeopleColorStoryThink
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