“Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.” Has BeensGirlBlackCloudsGrandmotherRainbowMy GrandmotherSexuallyBarefootArkansasBlack Girl Author:Maya Angelou
“At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'” PeopleLooksSaidDifferentSometimesHomeHandsBigsTogetherMovingBlackWhiteColorRaisesMeetingsSouthBlack And WhiteSouth AfricaRainbowDifferent PeoplesRepresentingDifferent Colors Author:Desmond Tutu
“Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.” LightEarthArtistBlackDarkColorPaintingBluePassingPassingsAtmosphereHorizonRaysRainbowOrangeVioletBlazingIndescribableDark BlueColors Of The RainbowLight Blue Author:Yuri Gagarin
“No one color can describe the various and varied complexions in our group. They range from the deep black to the fairest white with all the colors of the rainbow thrown in for good measure. When twenty or thirty of us meet, it is as hard to find three or four with the same complexion as it would be catch greased lightning in a bottle.” HardWould BeThreeBlackWhiteFourGroupsColorTwentiesVariousRangeThirtyThrownBottlesLightningRainbowComplexionColors Of The Rainbow Author:Mary Church Terrell