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“In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.”

Term Community Cities Quality Color Lows Educational Income Correlation Inner City Low Income High Notes City Walls

Author:Bill Gates

“I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.”

People Thinking Looks Beautiful Walks Cities Style Color Garden Architecture Quarters New Orleans Fairytale Lush Beautiful City French Quarter

Author:Anika

“Up to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as 1825, there stood, in what is now the beautiful little city of Vincennes on the Wabash, the decaying remnant of an old and curiously gnarled cherry tree, known as the Roussillion tree, le cerisier de Monsieur Roussillion, as the French inhabitants called it, which as long as it lived bore fruit remarkable for richness of flavor and peculiar dark ruby depth of color.”

Source: Alice of Old Vincennes (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)

“There are people who have a penchant for cities-more than that, a talent for them, a gift of sensing them, of feeling their rhythm and pulsebeats, as others have a highly developed music sense, or color reaction. It is a thing that cannot be acquired.”

People Feelings Cities Talent Color Reactions Rhythm Sensing

Book:Fanny Herself

Source: Fanny Herself

“Women inspire me. Women in the airports, around the country in different cities, destinations around the world, inspire me with the way they express their individuality. I love watching women and discovering all the ways each person uses a color, pattern, a style, even a lipstick color. Im a people watcher.”

People World Way Persons Different Country Use Cities Style Inspire Color Individuality Patterns Around The World Destination Discovering Airports Lipstick Watchers

Author:Camila Alves

“The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.”

Want Needs Humans Enough Space Cities Color Nurturing Saturated

Author:Janet Echelman

“If you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the scale of the city to have things like that. You know. So, not only because it's not appropriate, not only because it's offensive to the environment, I mean but among them also because that quantity of that color in the urban scale, is out of scale.”

Ifs Knows Mean Cities Mistake Environment Building Color Huge Paint Scales Appropriate Quantity Offensive Urban Shocking

Author:Massimo Vignelli

“Each piece that I put in the street is unique. I never make the same piece twice. For Hong Kong, like for every city where I have worked, I try to adapt my work to the culture and the 'colors' of the city.”

Trying Culture Cities Pieces Streets Color Unique Hong Kong

Author:Invader

“We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.”

Feelings Bigs Cities Color Instance Parks Harmonious Big Cities

Author:John Hench

“I was going through a time where I was like man I wanted all of my clothes to be totally understated and I would do pop color with hats from a line called Ale et Ange out of New york City. They created all these hats and I just thought they were super fresh and the only way that I could really get them across...I was just like, 'Let me make everything mute and just put on the hat.'”

Men Way Wanted Lines Cities New York Color Clothes Let Me Pops Hats New York City Mute Ale Understated

Author:Pusha T

“New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.”

“[Kenneth Koch] taught children in public schools in New York City to write poems and told them down worry about rhyming, don't worry about any of that stuff. You know, write a poem where you mention three colors and make it five lines - or he would just give them, you know, little strategies. And, man, they wrote some great poems.”

Knows Men Giving Writing Children Littles School Three Stuff Lines Cities Worry Five New York Taught Color Strategy New York City Public School Rhyming Kenneth

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish it politically, or through education and science. But America has become a consumer society, and I see young people in the cities - of all colors and races - hanging out together over consumerism.”

People Reality Together America Young Race Cities Color Theory Accomplish Consumers Hanging Out Pot Consumerism Melting Phony Melting Pot

Author:Russell Means

“If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.”

Ifs Men Should Change Cities Color Skins Claims Equality Sections Equality Of People Equality Of Man Large Cities

Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy