“. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.” PeopleWorldMindBelieveLooksLongLightFallBeliefUnderstandingLosesSpaceTeachingThis WorldColorFoolDon't BelieveInsanityFar AwayFalsehoodSagePreyIncense Author:Bodhidharma
“Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that we are able to attain, that every experience is dyed with its color. This is why, even in moments of joy, part of that joy is the seams of ore that are our sorrow. They burn darkly and beautifully in the midst of joy, and they make joy the complete experience that it is. But they still burn.” StillsSoulMomentsAbleJoyUnderstandingColorSorrowMidstWoven Author:Christian Wiman
“When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.” HumansHas BeensTwoSometimesTodayUnderstandingBlackHuman BeingsWhiteRoomsAwarenessColorReadyRacismEncounters Book:Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks Source: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
“Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors--neutral gray.” ArtMadeTwoTogetherLawUnderstandingIdentityColorProveThirdsVicesContentmentGrayDreadProvenAdulteryMockeryProve ItDesolateMerging Author:Alexander Theroux
“For me, being able to work with somebody who I don't have to translate my experience to all the time - that's important, because I'm not having to walk someone down the path of racial understanding to tell a story about a woman of color.” ImportantStoriesAbleUnderstandingWalksPathColorTranslate Author:Ellen Pompeo
“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
“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
“When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor.” PeopleUsedLiteratureUnderstandingBlackColorMetaphorWideInstanceRangeDevicesBlack PeopleBlacknessRhetorical Author:Kerry James Marshall
“The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines.” PeopleWayDifferentUnderstandingLinesPartyRaceCuttingGenerationsColorAmountInteractionCreedsUnprecedentedPartisansDifferent ColorsDifferent Races Author:Barack Obama