“Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare.” WorldPoetryLiteratureSunGrowingTreeColorFlowerHonorShapesDeserveEnglandRosePlantCome UpSeedsSoilOffspringSowingEldestPersiaFruitfulnessHafizPlants Growing Author:Robert Aris Willmott
“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.” PeopleParentBlackWhiteClassColorHonorBlack And WhiteUniformsWorking ClassGroundedJanitorColor Black Author:Janelle Monae
“I have worn my white and purple, colors of the Suffragettes, in honor of the fact that we have our first woman president, soon to be, Hillary Clinton, elected president of the United States.” FirstsStatesFactsPresidentWhiteUnitedUnited StatesColorHonorClintonWornPurpleSuffragettes Author:Nancy Pelosi
“By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this creates within them an attitude that is different from the attitude of the white that you meet here in America, and it was in Mecca that I realized that white is actually an attitude more so than it's a color.” HumansDifferentAmericaHuman BeingsWhiteAttitudeColorHonorPerfectionI RealizedWhitenessMeccaYardsticks Author:Malcolm X
“You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.” ChildrenPlayShowsGamesColorHonorLimitsYou ChooseSuperiorityFacilitateShackShack Book Author:William P. Young
“I don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for the honor. I'm bangin' for the Westside- this is in my heart, this is how I feel.” FeelsHeartPrinciplesLandColorMy HeartHonorRapperBangsWestside Author:Tupac Shakur
“America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that with loving pride we drape the colors in tribute of respect to this citizen of your great republic. And here and now, in the presence of the illustrious dead, we pledge our hearts and our honor in carrying this war to a successful issue. Lafayette, we are here.” HeartWarAmericaForceIssuesSuccessfulBloodMilitaryColorPrideCitizensHonorTreasureRepublicHere And NowPledgeTributeDrapesLafayette Author:Charles E. Stanton