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“If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?”

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.”

Thinking Different Black Differences White Views Color Perception Black And White Puritan Different Views Bright Colors

Author:Carlisle Floyd

“I don't know the difference between a warm color and a cool one.”

Knows Differences Color Warm

Author:Charles Marion Russell

“Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force. When less color and less intense color is present, trace amounts and subtle differences become highly significant and are strongly felt.”

Force Felt Differences Powerful Color Amount Significant Intense Psychological Colour Subtle

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.”

Long Differences Race Color Logical Creeds Race And Color

Book:That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm

Source: That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm

“Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?”

Firsts Play Able Sound Black Differences White Emotion Music Color Picks Down And Notes Paint Guitar Extremes

Author:Les Paul

“From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sizes and colors and sexualities; and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression.”

Children Goal Differences Groups Share Color Shapes Our Children Size Sexuality Oppression Liberation Intolerance I Have Learned Hierarchy Membership

Author:Audre Lorde

“Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.”

Men Differences Conditions Color Civilized Globes

Book:The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...

Source: The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...

“Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one's feet. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are.”

People Firsts Different Eye Lying Differences Race Feet Color Hair Shapes Built Skins Significant Brown Hierarchy Texture Lighters Showing Up Skin Color Eye Color

Author:Benjamin Jealous

“Everyone is different: different shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, personalities, and you have to celebrate those differences.”

Different Belief Differences Color Personality Shapes Size Celebrate Everyone Is Different

Author:Kelly Clarkson

“Babies aren't born knowing differences in color, gender, religions. They're taught those things. They're taught them at home. They're taught in the schools. They're taught in the churches. They're taught in the mosques, in the synagogues.”

Home School Born Differences Church Knowing Taught Color Baby Gender Mosques Synagogue

Author:Geraldine Ferraro

“NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.”

Knows Trying Remember Black Differences White Color Majors Locals Programming Black And White Converting Nbc

Author:Jim Henson

“The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.”

Sports Differences Color Skins Yankees Skin Color

Author:Reggie Jackson