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“Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.”

“Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what note to play, what word to use - in that artist's attempt to share what is in his or her soul. The audience is free to accept or reject those choices; it is emphatically not free to substitute its own.”

Art Soul Play Use Artist Choices Accepting Audience Share Color Conscious Series Notes Paint Rejects Works Of Art Substitutes

Author:Leonard Pitts

“The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.”

Moments Moral Policy Color Approach Standards Conscious Blind Progressive Public Policy

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

“We have to remember examples of many artists of conscious rap who have been coopted by the Department of State of the United States to be cultural ambassadors in different parts of the world, like Syria, like other parts of the Middle East, including conscious Islamic-American rappers that are representing an international political agenda for the United States through cultures more affable for people of color in other parts of the world.”

“It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is more like you have to check your privileges, the whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, "I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself."”

People Want Trying Form White Attention Responsibility Color Like You Conscious Lays Privilege Patterns Checks Accounting

Author:Bocafloja

“1974 meant big cuffs, bell-bottoms, platform shoes with two-tone colors, and body-conscious shirts.”

Two Body Bigs Color Conscious Bottom Shoes Shirts Tone Bells Platforms Cuffs Platform Shoes

Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.”

Way Looks Self Stuff Color Conscious Access Video Ironic 80s Self Conscious Filters

Author:Alan Palomo

“[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.”

Thinking Men Color He Man Behavior Conscious Deeds

Author:Malcolm X

“To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance to trying to grapple with black and brown and other peoples of color's ideas and identities - makes a huge difference.”

Trying Ideas Country Black Community Challenges Differences Practice Identity Color Huge Conscious Resistance Unconscious Brown Celebration Norm Whiteness

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of spring. The trees met, blending over the road and the spots of sun on the ground moved with the shifting of the branches, like a conscious caress.”

Source: The Fountainhead

“Bliss - a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.”