Home / Topics / Color Quotes

Color Quotes

Browse 4333 quotes about Color.

Color Quotes

“Feminism has neglected the needs of woman of color and people of color in general. But I don't think it means that we should overlook feminism as having nothing valuable to contribute.”

People Thinking Needs Should Mean Feminism Color Valuable Neglected

Author:Roxane Gay

“It's not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture. So at the emerging level, you can't have a good survey art show without women and artists of color.”

People Art Shows Artist Culture Voice Levels Color Accurate Emerging Surveys

Author:Frida Kahlo

“Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another. It's happened in the USA between white working class and poor folks on the one hand, and people of color on the other.”

People Hands Turns White Poor Class Happened Color Folks Oppression Usa Target Working Class

Author:Tim Tebow

“The more divided people of color are in a system of white supremacy/privilege, the weaker they will be, both individually and collectively.”

People White Color Privilege Divided White Supremacy Supremacy

Author:Tim Tebow

“Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or another, but it's not a personal crusade. My work is part of a larger tradition, and larger effort, involving mostly people of color, and of course some white allies as well.”

People Writing Years Wells Has Beens Form Courses White Effort Color Tradition Activism Campaigns Allies Involving Crusades

Author:Tim Wise

“Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word. Let's make an example. Take the word gay. Fifty years ago, gay meant exclusively cheerfulness, lighthearted excitement, merry or bright colors. Today this word has a different meaning. You won't call a cheerful person gay because it could be understood as something else.”

“In this day and age, you gotta be a profiler to really know who people are, which most of us are not. So, we need time and life to start happening for people to really show their trust colors.”

People Knows Needs Shows Age Color Happenings This Day Time Of Need Life And Time

Author:Joe Budden

“Love doesn't have any color. Other people may discriminate against us, but what is more important is whether we discriminate against them. If we don't do that, we are a happier person, and as a happier person, we are in a position to help. And anger, this is not a help.”

People Ifs May Persons Important Helping Position Color

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.”

People Justice Roles Achieve Color Historic

Author:Howard Zinn

“If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a large pool of people working at the worst jobs and the lowest paid jobs. Once you have a system like that, then the most likely people to be victims of that are people of color.”

People Ifs Jobs Class Economic Worst Color Paid Victim Pool Lowest Unemployed Economic Systems Lower Class

Author:Howard Zinn

“I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.”

People Way Littles Doe Matter Race Vision Honest Color Concerned Claims Blind Visions Of The Future Blind People

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I wouldn't say 'most' people are prone to negativity. I think it's probably that most people allow negativity to color their thinking, depending on circumstances, but I also believe most people make the necessary efforts to return to positive thinking as quickly as possible.”

People Thinking Believe Effort Positive Thinking Color Return Circumstances Negativity

Author:Zig Ziglar

“I always try and stay one step ahead of people, not looking like I looked like last week, so I can be as anonymous as possible and part of it is just for me. It is fun to just come up with new and bizarre colors for each area of your body and things like that, but there are some parts of it that I just keep wanting to negate myself. I hate waking up in the morning and recognizing the woman in the bathroom mirror.”

People Trying I Can Body Lasts Hate Fun Steps Morning Week Color Areas I Hate Wake Up Mirrors Come Up Your Body Waking Bizarre Recognizing Bathroom Waking Up In The Morning

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.”

People Way Helping Color Equal One Way Platforms Passports

Author:Chuck D

“I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person.”

People Persons Ability Style Color Judging Hair Skins Sight Disability Clothings Blindness Skin Color

Author:Patrick Henry Hughes

“When I go to another country, I try to be a big sponge and look at what the houses may look like and what colors predominate. I do not do research as much as just get ideas and ask people about things.”

People Trying Looks May Ideas Country Bigs Asks House Color Research Sponges

Author:Jan Brett

“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!”

People Years Firsts Mean Littles Kids Guy Rights Color South Scared Civil Rights Protest Lgbt Womens Rights Skinny Georgia Kkk

Author:Pauley Perrette

“We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race quotas substitute for diversity, and suicide is prescribed as 'death with dignity.' Political discourse has become completely corrupted. The reason is that if you tell people directly that you want to raise their taxes, transfer their wealth, count them by skin color, or let doctors kill them, most will object. Statists know this and therefore are obliged to obfuscate.”

“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!”

People Ifs Christian Humanity Reading Next Easy Understanding Steps Color Skins Harder Starting Scripture Superiority Inferiority Viewpoints Starting Point Next Steps

Author:Allan Boesak

“I do very, very, very simple, skimpy doodles, nothing too committed. Because people tend to fall in love if they like it - if you color it in and they like it, then they want exactly those colors, even if they were just indications. You really have to do it as simple as possible so they can concentrate on the idea and composition. And then all of the energy goes into making the final piece. And the final piece can be anything - it can be a drawing, a painting, a collage - and usually, it's obvious what that should be. Usually, the idea dictates what medium you use.”

People Ifs Want Should Ideas Use Fall Energy Simple Pieces Color Painting Falling In Love Finals Committed Obvious Drawing Mediums Composition Indication Collages

Author:Dave McKean

“It is easier to talk about issues; it is easier to say you're a feminist because it's actually awesome to be one. The panopoly of people identifying as feminists is really excellent now that we've come to a point where all these really interesting voices are rising up and saying they're feminists - women of color, trans people, gay folks, everybody. It's an exciting time to actually define as that because it means that people are really feeling like their voice is what's the most important thing in the movement, and I love that.”

People Mean Important Feelings Voice Interesting Issues Movement Color Easier Gay Exciting Important Things Folks Feminist Excellent Rising Really Interesting Trans Identifying Rising Up

Author:Lizz Winstead

“Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.”

People Important Body Girl Race Color Skins Like Me Representation Awkwardness Skin Color

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“I love to laugh, I love color, I love texture, and I love creativity, so I was always inspired by people who incorporate those things in their work.”

People Creativity Laughing Color Inspired Texture

Author:RuPaul

“Everybody's going to do the 3D slightly differently the same way that people are going to deal with color differently. Some movies downplay the color, some color is very vibrant. Color design is very different. We've got to think of 3D like color or like sound, as just part of the creative palette that we paint with and not some whole new thing that completely redefines the medium.”

People Thinking Way Different Whole Sound Deals Creative Design Color Paint Mediums New Things Palette Vibrant Colors

Author:James Cameron

“Lyndon Johnson wanted to emancipate the whites as much as people of color, because he knew how, particularly in the South, but not only in the South, we were so restricted. And he wanted everybody to live up to the best that God gave them and use those tools of education and have good health care, to be able to do the things to make America great.”

People Use Care Able Wanted America Color Tools South Health Care Johnson Good Health Good Health Care

Author:Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

“How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.”

People Names Food Color Cooking God Love Culinary Godly French Love Eggplant

Author:Jeff Smith

“Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.”

Source: Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia: With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connecte

“I'm always kind of contradictory to what people want and what's selling. But maybe I should care now because I have two or three more outlets. I have to be more adaptable color-wise to what people want. It's usually just black and pink, and that's it.”

People Want Should Kind Two Care Three Black Wise Color Selling Outlets Contradictory Adaptable

Author:Manolo Blahnik

“The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.”

People Parent Black White Class Color Honor Black And White Uniforms Working Class Grounded Janitor Color Black

Author:Janelle Monae

“I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Matter Helping Race Compassion Color No Matter What Shining

Author:Janelle Monae

“You think the only people who are people, Are the ones who look and think the way you do, But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, You'll learn the things you never knew you never knew... You can own the Earth and still, All you'll own is earth until You can paint with all the colors of the wind.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Looks Stills Earth Walks Color Wind Paint Stranger Footsteps

Author:Stephen Schwartz

“That's just like America. It's made up of lots of different people. We're all different colors, different ages, we do different jobs -- but it takes all of us black people, white people, brown people, men and women, young and old, working in the factories, working in the fields, working in offices, working in stores -- it takes a lot of different kinds of people to get the job done for America.”

“I play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody.”

People Play Color Drunk Creeds Sober

Author:Frank Sinatra

“I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something different?" What? I don't want to write anything different. I'm writing relationships between people, all different colors, all different sizes, all different sexual orientations, and that's what I want to do.”

People Want Writing Different Color Size Storyteller Orientation Different Colors

Author:Jackie Collins

“My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.”

People World Mother Parent Issues Rights Movement Color Feminist Active Civil Rights Activist Marginalized Feminist Movement

Author:Anna Holmes

“I feel like we're looked at as either completely nonsexual characters or overly sexual characters, and I feel like that affects how we're treated in the public space by men. I believe that women of color experience street harassment in a very hyper way. So I wanted to draw these women in their very normal, regular states and put those images out there in the public for people to see, instead of these other, very sexualized, images of women.”

People Men Way Feels Believe States Character Wanted I Believe Space Streets Color Normal Draws Treated Harassment Hyper Street Harassment

Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

“White people don't have that problem, they get to go through life never having to fit into a box, and it's really more so true for white men because even just being a woman, you sort of have to walk around other people's assumptions of you and it's so exhausting and there's a sense, especially among young people of wanting to just live your life, not having to wear the weight of that pressure - pressure that people of color feel, that gay people of color feel, that women of color feel.”

“Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning ancient redwood forests into paper towels or preventing people from sitting down at lunch counters because of the color of their skin. On climate change, we have not seen strong leadership coming from Washington, DC.In particular the president has an enormous opportunity to follow up on his inaugural speech with a concerted course of action to aggressively take on a clean energy transition.”

“There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They're still associated with types, with comedy, but we're in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues.”

People Thinking Needs Humans Stills Matter Stories Film Black Voice Human Beings Technology Issues Comedy Color Type Right Now Crisis Addresses Black Lives Matter Enabling Black Lives

Author:Charles Burnett

“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.”

People Ifs Feels Looks Stories Term Community Color Members Crosses Boundaries Irrelevant No Boundaries

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“For example, I'm a great fan of pornography, but I don't see any reason not to restrict it so that people walking down the street who hate pornography don't have full color pictures outside of movie theaters. Let them be in a different district. I'm kidding about pornography, but you get the point.”

People Different Reason Hate Fans Streets Example Color Walking Theater Pornography Movie Theater Great Fans

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues.”

People Challenges Poor Quality Issues Color Environmental Lists Priorities Conservation Poor People Quality Of Life Environmental Issues

Author:Jerome Ringo

“I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.”

People White Color Capable Critics Pointing Good Sense Noticing Misgivings

Author:Wesley Morris

“Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In this generation, it's sad to see so many black girls claiming ethnicities that they know nothing about in hopes of impressing a man or appearing 'exotic'. So many people act as if being black and beautiful is impossible. It's not. If we wanna get technical and look at our history, almost every black American is mixed. But we must stop implying that a woman's beauty comes from a part of her that is not black.”

“I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.”

People Black White Color Tvs Black And White Advent

Author:Damian Loeb

“Pop stars are sending the message that their sexuality is the strongest thing they have to offer, and that's confusing and misleading to girls and women, especially since there's not enough of a counterbalance from those who rely on their other assets, like their music. Also, with the new obsession with all things "booty," it's important that women - and it's often women of color - aren't turned into mere caricatures. Right now it's: "Bend over." That's all people want to see. That's crazy. It's so far from where we should be.”

People Want Should Important Enough Girl Stars Crazy Color Right Now Offers Messages All Things Mere Pops Sexuality Obsession Rely Strongest Assets Confusing Mislead Caricatures Pop Stars Booty

Author:Santigold

“When I started out in the '90s, there were not many people of color writing, directing and producing - hence, the roles for people of color were few and far between. There's still few roles in England [where she's from].”

People Writing Stills Roles Color England

Author:Archie Panjabi

“One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week. So the events that occur are rarely life-changing. But with film, you can say that this thing only happened once; this is a major thing that happened to these people.”

People Ends Problem Film Next Happened Week Events Television Color Majors Okay Life Changing Episodes Next Week

Author:Peter Capaldi

“I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.”

People Writing Believe Littles Moments I Believe Morning Seeing Color Ought Picks Coffee Painter Odd Description Pens Gestures Desks Mist Fitting Noticing Morning Coffee

Author:Shirley Jackson

“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.”

People World Writing Book Different Life Is Powerful Numbers This World Color Reader Weight Assuming Endless Height Different Peoples Escaping Manageable

Author:Philip K. Dick