“Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.” BigsRealityEyeNumbersColorWallLimitsShadowNotesScalesEndlessFurnitureLipstickTrue Colors Author:Evelyn Lauder
“There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)” BlackNumbersColorZeroOne DirectionColor Black Author:Errol Morris
“I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm escaping a world I don't like. A world I have no control in. In this world, I am nothing. I am a color, a height, a weight, a number. But in the world of books and writing, I am amazing. I am powerful. I am different. People are better. Worlds are endless. Change is possible. Life is manageable.” PeopleWorldWritingBookDifferentLife IsPowerfulNumbersThis WorldColorReaderWeightAssumingEndlessHeightDifferent PeoplesEscapingManageable Author:Philip K. Dick
“There are already a number of gatherings centered around women of color who are doing inspiring work.” NumbersColorGathering Author:Kerry Washington
“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
“When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."” SaidNumbersColorRedNineHere I Am Author:Sammy Hagar
“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
“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
“Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance, the inventory, answering the telephone, writing up the orders, picking, packing and shipping and managing all of these functions. So we eliminate a huge number of costs and the chance that those books won't sell.” WritingBookOrderChanceNumbersQualityFourColorHugeHigherCostPaperOceanFunctionSellsExpensiveCustomsTelephonesPrintingPackingInventoryShippingHuge NumbersClearance Author:Dan Poynter
“The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.” EyeAgeLiteratureSocialSexNumbersSecurityInformationColorUniqueDetermineCharacteristicsBirthdayDnaSocial SecurityEye ColorUnique Characteristics Book:Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
“If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.” IfsShowsWould BeLiteratureChristHoursNumbersColorWesternStationsDeclineProfitableAggravationQuizQuiz Show Author:Edward R. Murrow