“Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.” PeopleIfsHumansMeanCertainValuesHumanityBlackHuman BeingsWhiteQualitySawsColorRedAdvantageSkinsBrownHallsWarmthBlack PeopleFadedTextiles Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life
“Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.” LongRealHumanityLanguageSoundEmotionDoubtColorGoes OnIntellectualImitationReal ThingsRecreation Book:Writings, 1932-1946 Source: Writings, 1932-1946
“As actors, we want to go find the humanity and make it more nuanced and fill in the colors, rather than just being suit people who crack cases, 'cause they aren't that.” PeopleWantHumanityActorsCausesCasesColorSuitsCracksJust Being Author:Juliette Lewis
“If your starting point for understanding humanity is a racialist viewpoint, with superiority and inferiority projected onto people because of the color of their skin, then it's so easy to take the next step of justifying that point theologically and reading it into the Christian scripture. And that makes it harder to understand what scripture is actually saying!” PeopleIfsChristianHumanityReadingNextEasyUnderstandingStepsColorSkinsHarderStartingScriptureSuperiorityInferiorityViewpointsStarting PointNext Steps Author:Allan Boesak
“Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin.” HumanityFeltRaceSituationColorSkinsUniversalFlawsOutsiders Author:Jordan Peele
“For Muslims, the source of everything we do is based in the belief that there is one God, and this one God is revealing to us there is one humanity with equal dignity for each, beyond faith, color and social status. Whatever your status, color, background or religion, you have the same dignity.” HumanityBeliefSocialColorSourceEqualDignityBackgroundsRevealingSocial Status Author:Tariq Ramadan