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“I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.”

Looks Children Boys Four Color Infinite Dust Clay Erase Whiteness Palette

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.”

Source: A Child's Christmas in Wales

“Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color and audacity as you can muster.”

Ifs Wells Might Boys Color Fit Prove Blue Wit Standing Out Audacity Muster

Author:Josh Kilmer-Purcell

“I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.”

“Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.”

Done Justice Race Boys Color Fairs Equality Trials Creeds Courtroom Fair Trial

Author:Laurence Stallings

“When I was a boy we were poor and we had to make do with what we had. So my grandma used to make us quits that we used for blankets. She couldn't afford to go to the store and buy a blanket -- so she'd take scraps of cloth and sew them together. there'd be different colors and different patterns and different types of cloth -- but they all went together to make that big quilt to keep us warm.”

Different Bigs Together Used Poor Boys Color Type Patterns Warm Stores Quitting Blanket Grandma Scrap My Grandma Different Colors Quilts

Author:Jesse Jackson

“I built the film [Boy and the World] this way. I gathered all the tools I usually use such as brushes, color pencils, crayons, watercolors, and everything else I found in my studio, and I put them on top of a table. I had this feeling of freedom and possibility like if I was this boy. I was using the boy's freedom to create this film.”

Ifs World Way Use Feelings Film Found Boys Possibility Color Built Tools Tables Studios Brushes Pencils Crayon Watercolors

Author:Alex Abreu

“Women of color, particularly Black girls from economically challenged strati, we are told from the minute you start showing signs of being able to be impregnated: Don't get pregnant. You can't have sex because you might get pregnant. You can't wear short shorts because you might get pregnant. Don't talk to boys because you might get pregnant.”

Might Able Girl Sex Black Boys Minutes Color Pregnant Shorts Black Girl Short Shorts

Author:Staceyann Chin

“Part of what depresses me so much about football is that it's so clearly about exploiting people, most of them poor boys of color, because of what they can do to entertain us, not because we have any genuine concern for them as people.”

People Can Do Poor Boys Football Color Concern Genuine Depressing Poor Boy Genuine Concern

Author:Steve Almond

“If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and their letters and are getting good preschool, and by the time they get into school they've got a good teacher and are getting the support that they need and are able to keep up with their classwork, that is going to do more to reduce the incarceration rate at the same time, obviously, as it increases the college enrollment rate.”

Ifs Knows Needs Age Able School Young Three Boys Support Teacher Four College Color Letters Increase Rate Starting Good Teacher Incarceration Preschool Enrollment

Author:Barack Obama

“The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.”

Boys Color Hair Drug Constant Dues Stuck Tattoo Misconception Bad Boy

Author:A. J. McLean