“In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.” TermCommunityCitiesQualityColorLowsEducationalIncomeCorrelationInner CityLow IncomeHigh NotesCity Walls Author:Bill Gates
“It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.” DoneArtistSocialCommunitySpaceRoomsDesignBuildingColorPrideTasteSpotsGatheringHistoricLiving RoomRestoringBad Taste Author:Genevieve Gorder
“What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...” MenWorldNeedsYearsFeelingsSufferingCausesCommunityJusticeCompassionViolenceThis WorldColorYears AgoHatredGentleGreekAccomplishedDivisionBulletsMartyrOur CommunityAssassinsLove And Compassion Author:Robert Kennedy
“Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just we stayed quiet, we went along the get-along, we didn't stand on principle. The only year that was a good year for Republicans was 2010, when we painted in bold colors, not in pale pastels. We stood for principle. I think winning this fight right now is the most important thing we can do to see significant victories in 2014.” ThinkingYearsImportantLastsPoliticalFightingThreePoliticsWinningCan DoCommunityLeadershipJusticePartyPrinciplesFourPolicyColorVictoryRepublicanRight NowQuietElectionImportant ThingsStrategyUnitySignificantIdeologyVotingPalePolitical PartiesPartisanshipGood YearsPastel Author:Ted Cruz
“It's the one thing we can all relate to no matter what religion, what color, what nationality: we can all relate to sex and love.” MatterReligionSexCommunityFamilyOne ThingHuman NatureColorAnd LoveNo Matter WhatUnityIdeologyRelateNationalitySex And Love Author:Enrique Iglesias
“Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods.” IfsLooksSufferingCommunityPoorClassMiddleColorEnvironmentalMiddle ClassNeighborhoodPollutionFacilityUpper Middle Class Author:Carol Browner
“I believe in Mexico there's a big culture of moviegoing, both studio and indie. I think here in the US that's not the case because Latino communities don't have access to indie films. If you go into communities of color you will only find the big theater chains which only play the blockbuster genre films.” IfsThinkingBelievePlayBigsFilmCultureI BelieveCommunityCasesColorTheaterStudiosI Believe InAccessChainsGenreMexicoBelieve In MeLatinoBlockbusterIndie Films Author:Aurora Guerrero
“The color and spectacle of Mexico's streets sparked my interest in community driven space and experience, a passion that I began to develop while studying architecture at Syracuse University and then at the Architectural Association School in London. Having been immersed in such a diverse array of lively environments, it would be impossible for me not to use these memories and experiences as inspiration for my work.” UseInspirationWould BeSchoolPassionInterestCommunityMemoriesSpaceStudyEnvironmentImpossibleStreetsColorUniversityLondonDrivenArchitectureAssociationMexicoDiverseLivelySyracuse Author:David Rockwell
“I feel that our stories are cross culturally irrelevant, and I'm a member if a larger community of people who have no boundaries in terms of color or in terms of how I look at other people and their stories.” PeopleIfsFeelsLooksStoriesTermCommunityColorMembersCrossesBoundariesIrrelevantNo Boundaries Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.” ShouldFirstsLastsCommunityIssuesStudentsColorConcernBipartisanStudent Learning Author:J. C. Watts
“I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding. They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.” PeopleNeedsTryingBelieveI BelieveProcessUnderstandingCommunityWhiteColorAccountsAddHistoricalPrivilegeChecksInteraction Author:Bocafloja
“Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't use the drug at higher rates and even though their numbers in the general population are so low. How could that be? The thing is, you place all your resources in communities of color. And if you do that, you're going to arrest black people.” PeopleIfsUseBlackCommunityNumbersPolicyColorHigherDrugLowsPercentResourcesRatePopulationCracksBlack PeopleNinetyArrestedCocaine Author:Carl Hart
“I have always championed the concept of administrators of color. My mother worked in advertising, and growing up, I saw my mother's community of women working behind the scenes. I had the opportunity from a young age to know that I could do this work.” KnowsAgeYoungMotherOpportunityCommunityBehindsGrowing UpSawsGrowingColorSceneConceptsAdvertisingYoung AgeBehind The ScenesAdministratorsWorking Behind The Scenes Author:Lisa Lucas
“If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.” IfsTryingYearsLooksPastCommunityCareersColorLowsTwentiesCornersIncomeOver The PastAround The CornerLow Income Author:Van Jones
“I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years, it's pretty homogeneous, right? They haven't done a really deep dive into a lot of stories of people of color. I don't want to say that there haven't been attempts, and there has been some great product that has come out over the years, but I think in 2016, we're in a world of struggle. It's not just about race, it's also about the LGBT community too and others.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantYearsLooksHas BeensDoneWholeStoriesCommunityRaceStruggleHavensColorProductsTypeHollywoodLgbtReally DeepHomogeneousLgbt Community Author:Mike Jackson
“If you look at my collaborations, it is very much in line with all these others in the sense that it is a building of community, particularly among artists of color. This is what I learned from the example of elder African-American artists, which is where it is all coming from; to refuse to be silenced.” IfsLooksArtistCommunityLinesExampleBuildingColorRefuseAfrican AmericanCollaborationElders Author:Vijay Iyer
“In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we did create Color of Change, an organization which focused on African-Americans in particular, because we felt that there was a big gap there in terms of online advocacy which had left the black community particularly vulnerable.” BigsLeftFeltBlackTermCommunityParticularColorOrganizationFocusedVulnerableAfrican AmericanOnlineGapsHurricanesAdvocacyAftermathKatrinaBlack CommunityHurricane Katrina Author:Van Jones
“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
“I think that we will come out on top as women, as people of color, as Muslims, as transgender people, as people who are part of the disabled community - I think that we'll come out on top.” PeopleThinkingCommunityColorTransgenderDisabled Author:Ibtihaj Muhammad
“If we write our laws and design them around the most privileged members of society, i.e., billionaire football team owner, then we forget about the people who don't have the same resources to make an appeal, to fight a wrongful accusation. Those tend to be members of the LGBT community and people of color because those are the people who tend to engage in the work of reappropriation to subvert discrimination. And yet those are the same ones being denied, based on their own identities.” PeopleIfsWritingLawFightingCommunityForgetTeamDesignIdentityFootballColorMembersResourcesDiscriminationAppealsOwnersLgbtDeniedPrivilegedBillionaireAccusationFootball TeamLgbt Community Author:Simon Tam
“Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in which the rules, laws, policies, structures of their lives virtually guarantee that they will remain trapped for life. It begins at a very early age when their parents themselves are either behind bars or locked in a permanent second-class status and cannot afford them the opportunities they otherwise could.” AgeLawOpportunityParentBornCommunityBehindsClassPolicyYouthColorStructureBarsPermanentGuaranteesLockedTrappedCagesGhettoGuarantees ThatClass Status Author:Michelle Alexander
“Most Americans violate drug laws in their lifetime, but the enemy in this war has been racially defined. Not by accident, the drug war has been waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color, even though studies have consistently shown - for decades - the people of color are no more likely to use or sell illegal drugs than whites.” PeopleHas BeensWarUseLawCommunityPoorEnemyStudyColorDrugSellsLifetimeAccidentsDecadesDefinedIllegalConsistentlyWar On DrugsIllegal DrugsDrug Laws Author:Michelle Alexander
“Many people don't realize that financial incentives have been built into the drug war that guarantee that law enforcement will continue to arrest extraordinary numbers of people, particularly in poor communities of color, for minor drug offenses that get ignored on the other side of town.” PeopleHas BeensWarLawSidesRealizingCommunityPoorNumbersColorDrugBuiltTownsExtraordinaryFinancialGuaranteesMinorsOffenseIgnoredLaw EnforcementEnforcementIncentivesWar On DrugsGuarantees That Author:Michelle Alexander
“Of course it would make far more sense to invest in education and job creation in poor communities of color, rather than spend billions of dollars caging them and monitoring them upon release.” JobsCoursesCommunityPoorCreationColorDollarsBillionsReleaseMonitoringJob Creation Author:Michelle Alexander
“When you are a marginalized person or a woman of color and/or someone who's a part of the LGBTQ community, your acts become politicized, just by being yourself. Because we're not completely accepting of all different kinds of human beings. By being myself, I'm doing something political.” HumansKindPersonsDifferentPoliticalCommunityHuman BeingsAcceptingColorBeing YourselfDifferent KindsBeing MyselfMarginalized Author:Amandla Stenberg
“I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.” IfsThinkingNeedsShouldBelieveDoneKidsActionBlackCommunityWhitePoorColorSkinsGenderScholarshipAffirmative ActionAffirmativeSkin Color Author:J. C. Watts