“Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.” PeopleYearsNightPresidentChallengesColorClintonPrimariesSaturdayFeverSaturday NightPresident ClintonPrimary ColorsSaturday Night Fever Author:John Travolta
“The challenges that I face today are the same challenges we all face. Trying to balance your life between work, family, loved ones, your husband, your wife - boyfriend or girlfriend. If you have kids - balancing that, balancing your work with the time you spend with your kids. The idea of wanting to be a good parent and then the motivation to be a great parent. Whether you're black, white, any color. Rich, poor, regardless of religion, cousins of culture, we go through those. We have the same challenges.” IfsTryingIdeasKidsTodayFacesMotivationCultureParentBlackChallengesWhitePoorRichWifeColorBalanceHusbandGirlfriendLoved OnesCousinFamily LoveYour HusbandBlack WhiteGood ParentRich PoorGreat ParentsWork Family Author:Dwayne Johnson
“I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.” FirstsChallengesGenerationsStudentsCollegeColorCollege Students Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III
“One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues.” PeopleChallengesPoorQualityIssuesColorEnvironmentalListsPrioritiesConservationPoor PeopleQuality Of LifeEnvironmental Issues Author:Jerome Ringo
“Your color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.” HumansPersonsLongSoulUseNextChallengesHuman BeingsBrainColorYour Soul Author:Angelique Kidjo
“Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.” ShouldLooksRealityPastArtistChallengesPathGenerationsModernColorPainterImperfectionModern LifeBrutalityNew GenerationNew PathsDidactic Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Well, I don't know anything about television. I'd never done it before. Initially, it was quite daunting to take on so much challenge and so much time with it. I think it is a great outlet for an actress because you really have 13 hours to bring a character to life, which is so much more than with film, and you have the luxury of time to tell a story and to really color a character.” ThinkingKnowsWellsDoneCharacterStoriesFilmHoursChallengesTelevisionColorActressesLuxuryOutlets Author:Diane Kruger
“I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers.” PeopleIfsWritingFirstsLooksWholeActorsChallengesColorDirectorsTheatreDesignerTheatricalColorfulAccountantsWacky Author:Lanford Wilson
“Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.” IfsFirstsSaidHomeChallengesChangedColorMaterialsTomorrowI RealizedComedianCrutchesYou Changed Author:Bill Cosby
“There still aren't enough[ roles for women of color]. And I'd say that's the case, not only for African-American women, but for all women in the Hollywood game. It's just slim pickings, and a very challenging time for us. I think that's why more of us need to work our way behind the camera in order to create roles that really illuminate who women are. We still have room for growth in that area, without a doubt.” ThinkingWayNeedsStillsEnoughOrderGamesGrowthChallengesRoomsBehindsRolesCasesDoubtColorAreasHollywoodCamerasAfrican AmericanSlimAmerican WomanAfrican American WomenChallenging Times Author:Jada Pinkett Smith
“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
“To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance to trying to grapple with black and brown and other peoples of color's ideas and identities - makes a huge difference.” TryingIdeasCountryBlackCommunityChallengesDifferencesPracticeIdentityColorHugeConsciousResistanceUnconsciousBrownCelebrationNormWhiteness Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to address the social, economic, and political challenges of our time.” PeopleMenPoliticalSocialBlackChallengesPoorEconomicColorMassOur TimeAddressesPoor PeopleCastesIncarcerationCaste SystemMass Incarceration Author:Michelle Alexander