“Well, the bottom line is that I'm extremely pleased with 'The Stupids.' I'm pleased that it's coming out, and it should look good. It's nice looking, with the colors and stuff. I made it for kids, and I really would like them to see it.” ShouldWellsLooksMadeKidsStuffLinesNiceColorBottomMade ItComing OutBottom Line Author:John Landis
“I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.” KnowsKidsColorPaintingTheoryDrawingNineCompositionDrawing And Painting Author:David Salle
“A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.” ThinkingCharacterKidsTogetherFormStuffCan DoPiecesColorShapesHotPaintPainterToneFooledNeckties Author:John French Sloan
“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.” WayYearsChildrenLittlesKidsMotherFatherFeltParentBlackTermWhiteResponsibilityAudienceSawsColorTvsSmarterLittle KidSitcomManipulativeCaregivers Author:Bill Cosby
“I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.” KindArtKidsFatherFeltEasyWaterClassColorDrawsDrawingPainterHatedSundayAssignmentsArt Class Author:Wade Guyton
“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
“Maybe we'll stop training our kids to stop looking at someone and automatically seeing them as Black or White or of this religion or that one etc, and instead, as a human being. Maybe we can stop forcing our ideas like, "I don't want them to marry this person because they are of this religion or this color" on them.” WantHumansPersonsIdeasKidsBlackHuman BeingsWhiteSeeingColorTrainingEtcBlack Or White Author:Immortal Technique
“By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my dream as a kid, and it wasn't easy. I'm on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame and I'm one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, according to Time Magazine. I think my duty is to go back and tell kids, 'Whatever color you are, wherever you come from, anything and everything is possible.' And I'm living proof.” ThinkingYearsDreamKidsWantedAmericaEasyWalksAchieveColorDutyFameHollywoodProofMagazinesComedianInfluentialAnything And EverythingLiving ProofTime Magazine Author:George Lopez
“I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared to death, marching against the KKK in South Georgia. And I have never stopped marching in protests since. Not ever. I mean, LGBT rights, women's rights, the rights of people of color... I'm your guy. I'm going to be out there marching!” PeopleYearsFirstsMeanLittlesKidsGuyRightsColorSouthScaredCivil RightsProtestLgbtWomens RightsSkinnyGeorgiaKkk Author:Pauley Perrette
“I always loved to paint. As a kid, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink. They gave colors to me to use, but I didn't like them very much.” UseKidsBlackColorPaintInkDipPaintbrush Author:Pierre Soulages
“Even if your skin is perfect, even if it's glowing and beautiful, electric lights defeat you. They deaden the complexion, make it look drab. They rob you of color...In the evening, you just can't play the natural kid bit, that fresh-scrubbed look.” IfsLooksPlayLightKidsBeautifulBitsNaturalPerfectColorSkinsDefeatEveningElectricGlowingComplexionElectric Light Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“Cause Jesus I do think did exist, and he was, I think, a guy who had interesting ideas in the Gandhi-type area, in the Nelson Mandela-type area, you know, relaxed and groovy; and the Romans thought, Relaxed and groovy?! No, no, no, no, no! So they murdered him. And kids eat chocolate eggs, because of the color of the chocolate, and the color of the... wood on the cross. Well, you tell me! It's got nothing to do with it, has it?” ThinkingKnowsWellsIdeasKidsGuyJesusCausesInterestingColorTypeAreasCrossesWoodsEggsChocolateRelaxedNelsonInteresting IdeasGroovyChocolate Eggs Author:Eddie Izzard
“I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color and exaggerated lighting, not a surreal or fictive moment... I think the lighting and feeling of Cinemascope, the movies I saw as a kid, always stayed with me as a kind of glorious vision of reality.” ThinkingKindMeanMomentsFeelingsRealityKidsQualityVisionSawsColorI RealizedGloriousSurrealLightingExaggeratedArtificeStaging Author:Laurie Simmons
“Between the kids, the jobs and everything, no matter what color you are, cardio is probably not on the top of your list.” MatterKidsJobsColorNo Matter WhatListsCardio Author:Nicole Ari Parker
“As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded - as the fostering of fuller U.S. citizenship among immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and their kids. But this very achievement separated poorer and often despised immigrant workers from Europe and workers of color in unprecedented ways.” WayKidsDealsColorAchievementEuropeTasksWorkersImmigrantsSouthernCitizenshipEasternHistoricDespisedUnprecedentedWhitenessEastern EuropeNew DealFosteringImmigrant Workers Author:David Roediger
“I agree that all kids of all colors love hip-hop. My point in writing the book was to raise questions about the ways the hip-hop generation and the millennium generation, both who have lived their entire lives in post-segregation America, are processing race in radically different ways than any generation of Americans. I think they have a lot to tell us as a country about ways of addressing race matters.” ThinkingWayWritingBookDifferentCountryMatterKidsAmericaRaceGenerationsColorRaisesAgreeHip HopHipsPostsDifferent WaysHopsSegregationProcessingMillenniumRaises Questions Author:Bakari Kitwana
“I was on the set of the first Powers pilot, and an actor of color came up to me and said, "When I was a kid, my friends wouldn't let me play Batman or Superman, because I wasn't their color. But they would let me play Spider-Man. And that's the difference." And I realized I had heard this story a hundred times from different people, but I wasn't there in my head yet.” PeopleMenFirstsSaidDifferentPlayStoriesKidsActorsDifferencesHeardColorHundredMy FriendsLet MeI RealizedPilotsSpidersDifferent PeoplesSpider Man Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“Whether the people in Haiti, the young kids in Chicago that [are] going through violence, or whether you're in Atlanta or L.A. or Europe - it's not even color barriers for me - I go to where I know there's a lot of turmoil and pain.” PeopleKnowsKidsPainYoungViolenceColorEuropeBarriersChicagoTurmoilHaitiAtlanta Author:Common
“I get letters from kids from all over the country. I always try to answer them because there were people I looked up to in my youth and just wanted to be in contact with. It's also important to realize that you find your role models in a lot of different places. I've never believed that your role models have to look like you. You can find them in all sort of colors, shapes and sizes.” PeopleTryingLooksImportantDifferentCountryKidsWantedRealizingAnswersRolesYouthColorLike YouShapesModelsLettersSizeContactRole ModelsDifferent Place Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I've spoken about this completely independent of this movie prior to ever being attached to this film that as a kid the first movie that I remember seeing that resonated with me was the Wizard of Oz. I think just visually the color, the spectrum of it and how fantastical it was and how much you wanted to live in that world, for a nine-year old was so magical and so grand so I have the greatest, fondest memories of it.” ThinkingWorldYearsFirstsKidsWantedRememberFilmMemoriesSeeingColorIndependentNineWizardsSpectrumNine Years Author:Mila Kunis
“My experience may be different than theirs, readers can identify with trying to save for retirement or their own kid's college fund. In truth, the name of the column, "The Color of Money," has less to do with my race than the fact that the color of money is green and it's green we all need to live a good life.” NeedsTryingMayDifferentFactsKidsNamesRaceCollegeColorReaderGreenFundRetirementGood LifeColumns Author:Michelle Singletary
“It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from a different perspective. They let us look at birds in a way that makes us never see birds again in the same way. That's why I don't think computers are healthy for kids. They're too literal. You pop a button and a bluebird comes out. You pop another button and you can take the color blue and shove it into the outline of the bluebird.” ThinkingWorldWayLooksDifferentStoriesKidsArtistColorPerspectiveHealthyComputerBirdBluePopsButtonsLiteralOutlinesDifferent PerspectiveBluebirdColor Blue Author:Julie Taymor
“As a kid growing up and seeing so much strife taking place in society, and particularly on Blacks and people of color, I had an opportunity as a young man to witness the change that was taking place in Harlem, the exodus of white folks leaving Harlem, which I thought was a very cohesive situation. But they felt that they needed to leave.” PeopleMenKidsYoungOpportunityFeltWhiteSituationGrowing UpGrowingSeeingColorNeededLeavingFolksWitnessYoung ManStrifeHarlemKids Growing UpExodus Author:John Carlos
“As a kid, I had a real fascination with perverse, off-color, and kind of risky things, and I also had a very sanctimonious Catholic, purist side.” KindRealKidsSidesColorCatholicFascinationSanctimonious Author:George Saunders
“We need a whole bunch of books about people of color, kids on the spectrum, etc. It's strange that we have a population of school children that is majority nonwhite but their books are majority white.” PeopleNeedsChildrenBookWholeKidsSchoolWhiteStrangeColorMajorityPopulationBunchEtcSpectrum Author:Kekla Magoon
“The mythology around colorblindness leads people to imagine that if poor kids of color are failing or getting locked up in large numbers, it must be something wrong with them. It leads young kids of color to look around and say: "There must be something wrong with me, there must be something wrong with us. Is there something inherent, something different about me, about us as a people, that leads us to fail so often, that leads us to live in these miserable conditions, that leads us to go in and out of prison?"” PeopleIfsLooksDifferentKidsYoungPoorNumbersImagineFailingConditionsColorPrisonMythologyMiserableLockedImagine ThatInherentLarge NumbersLocked Up Author:Michelle Alexander
“I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't mean any harm to people of color - this idea that we're beyond all that (so it must be something else) makes it difficult for young people as well as the grown-ups to be able to see clearly and honestly the truth of what's going on. It makes it difficult to see that the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement manifested itself in the form of mass incarceration, in the form of defunding and devaluing schools serving kids of color and all the rest.” PeopleThinkingWellsMeanIdeasKidsAbleSchoolFormYoungCoursesDifficultRaceRightsMovementColorPoliticianMassPoliceHarmHonestlyMythologyCivil RightsRacistServingOfficersCivil Rights MovementPolice OfficerIncarcerationBacklashMass Incarceration Author:Michelle Alexander
“The education justice movement and the prison justice movement have been operating separately in many places as though they're in silos. But the reality is we're not going to provide meaningful education opportunities to poor kids, kids of color, until and unless we recognize that we're wasting trillions of dollars on a failed criminal justice system.” Has BeensRealityKidsOpportunityJusticePoorMovementColorDollarsPrisonCriminalsMeaningfulJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice System Author:Michelle Alexander
“Soups are a great way to introduce a lot of vegetables to kids. Stir-fries, too, because they contain so many different shapes and colors.” WayDifferentKidsColorShapesVegetablesIntroducingSoupFriesStir Fry Author:Emeril Lagasse
“As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.” GivingSaidKidsBlackColorScreensHorizonPermissionCowboy Author:Walter Dean Myers
“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