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“If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?”

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors.”

Ifs Feels Children Color Personality Clothes Green Feel Good Orange

Author:Janelle Monae

“Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.”

Children Problem Form Parent Influence Television Color Products Baby Expectations Motherhood Shade Ads Problem Solving Being A Parent

Book:Between generations: the six stages of parenthood

Source: Between generations: the six stages of parenthood

“HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.”

Humans Children Human Beings Animal Color Plant Ancestor

Book:The Temple of My Familiar

Source: The Temple of My Familiar

“All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.”

Children Light Chance Family Darkness Movement Color Fortune Fantastic Tension Light And Darkness

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn't been squashed. The early stuff is still there.”

Children Art Stills Use Certain Stuff Lines Creativity Talent Taught College Color Draws Collecting

Author:Beverly L. Kaye

“Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds.”

Ifs Children Play Dream Seems Color Boxes Handle Toys

Author:Jean Helion

“I've dedicated my career to fighting the mundane. My hope is that my career will be a shining example to children everywhere that life is more meaningful when you are not afraid to see all colors of the rainbow.”

Children Life Is Fighting Careers Example Color Shining Meaningful Dedicated Not Afraid Rainbow Mundane Colors Of The Rainbow

Author:RuPaul

“It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.”

Children Wonder Sea Color Laughter Sand Things In Life Toes Simplest

Author:Goldie

“It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.”

Knows Children Form Attention Quality Color Exercise Judgment Senses Comparison Repetition

Author:Maria Montessori

“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.”

Way Years Children Littles Kids Mother Father Felt Parent Black Term White Responsibility Audience Saws Color Tvs Smarter Little Kid Sitcom Manipulative Caregivers

Author:Bill Cosby