“The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its appetite is satiated; these are the true measures of a colorist's talent.” NeedsArtistAbilityTalentColorDemandAppetiteAlertness Book:Wolf Kahn: New Work, 1987-1989 Source: Wolf Kahn: New Work, 1987-1989
“It is not something I earned or acquired or bought (the ability to pitch). It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin.” GivenAbilityColorSkins Author:Bob Gibson
“The system of white supremacy is intended to make folks of color doubt themselves, their intelligence, their abilities, their very sanity. And so it's important to remember that folks of color know their own realities.” KnowsImportantRealityRememberAbilityWhiteDoubtColorFolksSanityWhite SupremacySupremacy Author:Tim Wise
“Name Yellow Wolf comes from life experiences. Yellow is the color of the sun - its power, fire, and hunger. Wolf represents my fierceness and ability to survive.” NamesAbilitySunFireColorHungerYellowLife ExperienceFierceness Author:Yelawolf
“I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person.” PeoplePersonsAbilityStyleColorJudgingHairSkinsSightDisabilityClothingsBlindnessSkin Color Author:Patrick Henry Hughes
“Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all we love will someday vanish. It says there's beauty even in grief, freedom even inside the strictures of form and of life. What's liberating isn't what's simplest; it's the ability to include more and more shadows, colors and possibilities inside any moment's meeting of self and world.” WorldArtStillsSelfMomentsFormAbilityGriefKnowingPossibilityColorEvolutionShadowMeetingsSomedaySimplestLiberating Author:Jane Hirshfield
“The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.” KnowsWantNeedsWritingHandsEyeNamesAbilityKnowingColorPleaseEarsPhysicsPainterLandscapeGesturesRhetoric Author:Jane Hirshfield
“That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence.” ArtYoungGirlBlackTermAbilityWalksInfluenceColorPaintingHistoricalMuseumsBrooklynBlack GirlSpecificity Author:Kehinde Wiley
“If you recall when [John] Kennedy passed an edict, 'Every person you hire in the Post Office must be African American,' the challenge with that is if all of a sudden, you are hired just because of the color of your skin, ability has nothing to do with it.And if ability has nothing to do with it, what does it do? It promotes mediocrity.” IfsPersonsDoeChallengesAbilityColorOfficeSkinsAfrican AmericanPostsMediocrityRecallsPost OfficeJohn Kennedy Author:Rafael Cruz
“People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American and I'm a dual-threat quarterback. I don't know why that stereotype is still around. It's about talent and the ability to throw the ball, not the color of your skin or your ability to also be a dangerous runner.” PeopleKnowsWayLongStillsI CanRunningSchoolAbilityCareersTalentDangerousColorLong TimeHigh SchoolSkinsBallsThreatAfrican AmericanRunnersStereotypeQuarterback Author:Deshaun Watson
“Should I be collaborating with artists of color solely because of their race and my politics? This question is weighted with my own worry that I have been invited to speak or collaborate solely because of my race, and not because of my abilities.” ShouldHas BeensArtistSpeakMy OwnAbilityRaceWorryColorShould IInvitedCollaborating Author:Vivek Shraya
“If you're a person with resources who is LGBT, you may have some problems with that - but, frankly, you'll probably have an apartment. If you're poor, if you're transgender, if you're a person of color, if you're HIV positive and you're homeless, the ability to act on desire, the ability to be safely somewhere to make love with anybody that you want to make love with is unlikely.” IfsWantMayPersonsProblemDesireAbilityPoorColorResourcesLgbtApartmentMaking LoveHomelessUnlikelyTransgenderHivHiv Positive Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.” KnowsFeelingsBigsStuffAbilityColorAspectSmellAppetiteFast FoodChemist Author:Greg Kinnear