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“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.”

Life May Used Color Circumstances Skins Transparent Crystals Vary Right Words

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.”

World Color Skins Embrace Defined Skin Color Where You Come World Is Yours

Author:Angelique Kidjo

“I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.”

Humans Care Lines Human Beings Color Red Skins Bottom Don't Care I Don't Care Bottom Line Skin Color

Author:Angelique Kidjo

“Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.”

Humans War Black Differences White Conditions Color Skins Forgotten Symbols Human Condition Uniforms Similarity Skin Color Black Or White

Author:John D. MacDonald

“For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.”

“One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.”

Years Color Hundred Years Ago Skins Remains Slave Bondage

Book:A Time for Action

Source: A Time for Action

“If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?”

Ifs Want Children Would Be School Enjoy Dark Changed Color Skins Vote Available Officials Restaurants Lunch Delay Public School Public Officials Free Life

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Of course, I love everyone I meet. How could I fail to! Within everyone is the spark of God. I am not concerned with racial or ethnic background or the color of one's skin; all people look to me like shining lights! I see in all creatures the reflections of God. All people are my kinfolk - people to me are beautiful!”

People Looks Light Beautiful Courses Failing Color Creatures Reflection Concerned Skins Shining Backgrounds Sparks Love Everyone Shining Light Ethnic Background Kinfolk

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character. I have a dream today!”

“I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character...is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking.”

Men Children Reason Character Simple Taught Color Judging Kings Skins Luther

Author:J. C. Watts

“It's wrong to discriminate based on skin color when there are so many other reasons not to like someone.”

Reason Color Skins Skin Color

Author:Dennis Miller

“When I grew up I assembled my role models à la cart. I wanted to be an astrophysicist. If I tried to find a role model who grew up in the Bronx with my skin color who was an astrophysicist, I would never have become an astrophysicist.”

Ifs Wanted Roles Color Grew Grew Up Models Skins Role Models Carts Skin Color Bronx

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.”

Men Heart Matter Color Theory Skins No Matter What Skin Color

Author:Mark Twain

“All these people who think they deserve free health care, or a job, or a plasma screen TV, simply because they radiate heat at 98.6 degrees, or because they were born in a certain place, or because they have a certain skin color - it's all bunk. There's no such thing as a 'just' wage. There's only what you earn.”

People Thinking Care Jobs Certain Born Color Tvs Degrees Deserve Skins Screens Health Care Heat Skin Color Bunk Plasma

Author:Doug Casey

“Even if your skin is perfect, even if it's glowing and beautiful, electric lights defeat you. They deaden the complexion, make it look drab. They rob you of color...In the evening, you just can't play the natural kid bit, that fresh-scrubbed look.”

Ifs Looks Play Light Kids Beautiful Bits Natural Perfect Color Skins Defeat Evening Electric Glowing Complexion Electric Light

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“The color of your skin is your uniform in this ultimate battle for the survival of the West.”

Color Battle Survival Skins Ultimate West Uniforms

Author:George Lincoln Rockwell

“With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.”

Has Beens Country Might America Poverty Effects Particular Color Skins Spread Isolation Concentration Bias Segregation Injured Disadvantages Skin Color Melanin

Book:We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.”

Play Today Levels Technology Color Conversation Skins Overcoming University Uniforms Versus Georgia Skin Color Georgia Tech

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone's skin.”

Care Color Skins

Author:Vince Gill

“I don't care what color your hair is, if you're pale or tan, if you have makeup on or just woke up all I care about is that when I look at you, you always look back and see me. You're beautiful inside and out and if you wanted to tattoo all that pretty white skin from head to toe I would be honored to put it there for you but if not I'll take you all smooth and milky white any chance I get.”

“Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.”

Animal Color Skins Variety Vegetables Mushrooms Fiber Minerals Rainstorms

Author:Joni Mitchell

“A lot of the exercise of embracing identity as a political affirmation is not just simply parked in the question of skin color or culture, but more it is a political affirmation with all these implications and more.”

Political Culture Identity Color Exercise Skins Affirmation Implications Skin Color

Author:Bocafloja

“You can put in a curl or put on a lip color or mascara, but the important thing is that the health of your skin and hair is shining through.”

Important Color Hair Skins Important Things Shining Lips Curls Mascara Shining Through

Author:Erin Heatherton

“As any man, I, of course, have certain preferences. Being a Scot by birth, I'm inclined to favor those with a well-scrubbed look and a hint of color in their cheeks-put there by an early walk in the chill air rather than by rouge. The smell of soap on a woman's skin or the hint of shampoo in her hair is perfume enough for me . . . Humor is important. The most beautiful woman in the world is a bore without that.”

“Running unites us and brings us together because, in the words of the great Bill Rogers, "We sweat the same. We struggle the same." Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. for it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race. Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.”

“That turned-up collar. The jacket that zipped all the way down the front into a nice fitted shape. The white denim that made my untanned skin look like a color.”

Way Looks Made White Nice Fronts Color Shapes Skins Jackets Collars Denim

Author:Tina Fey

“It is true that our skin is sort of more or less the same shade. But is it true that our skin color makes us a distinctive race? No.”

Race Color Skins Shade Distinctive Skin Color

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is "black" or "white." I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race.”

Ifs Writing May Persons Eye Black Dark White Race Fiction Talking Color Skins Blue Appearance Etc Not Talking Blue Eyes Black Or White Black Eyes Physical Appearance Dark Skin

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I don't know what to say about Asians. I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the information they are looking at (for example skin color, bone structure), but I think focusing on race in any manner that isn't neutral or self-aware probably increases racism.”

Thinking Knows Self Race Brain Information Example Color Degrees Racism Skins Increase Structure Bones Racist Associates Skin Color

Author:Tao Lin

“I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost anything that I write, I'll stay completely immersed in the electronic text of it for a period of time and in another period, I'll stay immersed in it as a physical thing that can cut your skin. So with the apocalypses, I had them taped all over the wall and they had codes on them. Sometimes I would color code them in terms of thematic elements, sometimes in terms of voice, sometimes visual forms or images.”

Thinking Writing Sometimes Form Voice Term Cutting Color Wall Periods Elements Skins Code Visuals Concrete Apocalypse Ephemeral Physical Things Thematic

Author:Lucy Corin

“I use color as my chief guide. But I always squeeze an avocado - you want the fruit to feel close to the skin. If you can feel a separation, the avocado is past its prime. The avocado should have a little give, but not much.”

Ifs Want Giving Feels Should Littles Use Past Color Should Have Skins Fruit Guides Separation Chiefs Prime Avocados

Author:Dorie Greenspan

“I have huge admiration for people who think like the effective altruist, who try to rationally think about how they can change the world for the better, and who try not to be swayed by irrational considerations, such as skin color or whether or not someone lives in the same neighborhood.”

People Thinking World Trying Color Huge Skins Changing The World Consideration Neighborhood Admiration Irrational Skin Color

Author:Paul Bloom

“My mom always said to us, "You cannot judge anybody because of the color of skin." There were a lot of African immigrants in Italy at the time, and people would not even say hi in the street. And my mom, she would invite these people to the house. This is what I got from my mom: to not judge people because of their sexuality, their skin color, their religion, nothing.”

People Said House Streets Color Judging Mom Skins My Mom Sexuality Immigrants Invites Skin Color

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.”

Color Skins And Love Gender Plates Skin Color Religion And Love

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color.”

People Certain Term Dark White Levels Color Skins Impact Privilege Dedicated Closeness Ranking Skin Color

Author:Toni Morrison

“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.”

Men Facts Political Opportunity Politics Justice Race Color Skins Blind Emancipation Proclamation Unawareness Unconcerned Emancipation Proclamation Race And Color

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“The two most important forms of diversity when it comes to innovation are visible diversity (typically skin color, age, gender, etc.) and underrepresentation (anytime someone is less than 15% of the majority group). Other forms of diversity are also relevant but these are the ones that psychologically play the most role in how someone engages with the innovative process.”

Two Important Play Age Form Process Roles Groups Color Diversity Skins Innovation Majority Gender Visible Etc Relevant Innovative Skin Color

Author:David Livermore

“People are realizing that being gay is just as defining as the color of our skin and it's not a choice. I'm really encouraged. I think in my lifetime we will achieve equality. I'm honored to be a part of it.”

People Thinking Choices Realizing Achieve Color Gay Skins Lifetime Honored Defining Being Gay

Author:Leslie Jordan

“I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.”

“If you recall when [John] Kennedy passed an edict, 'Every person you hire in the Post Office must be African American,' the challenge with that is if all of a sudden, you are hired just because of the color of your skin, ability has nothing to do with it.And if ability has nothing to do with it, what does it do? It promotes mediocrity.”

Ifs Persons Doe Challenges Ability Color Office Skins African American Posts Mediocrity Recalls Post Office John Kennedy

Author:Rafael Cruz

“Sure, being good at your job is really important, but in acting, so much of the decision's already made the minute you walk in the room because they're like, 'His hair's good or she's got the right skin color' or whatever. It's so random, but it's so physically oriented.”

Made Important Jobs Decision Walks Rooms Acting Minutes Color Hair Skins Be Good Skin Color

Author:Rashida Jones

“Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.”

Thinking Persons Doe Color Skins Determine Gender Skin Color

Author:Marianne Williamson

“We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.”

Matter Mother Belief Race Color Skins Tongue Skin Color Mother Tongue

Author:Claudia Black

“People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American and I'm a dual-threat quarterback. I don't know why that stereotype is still around. It's about talent and the ability to throw the ball, not the color of your skin or your ability to also be a dangerous runner.”

People Knows Way Long Stills I Can Running School Ability Careers Talent Dangerous Color Long Time High School Skins Balls Threat African American Runners Stereotype Quarterback

Author:Deshaun Watson

“If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.”

Ifs Would Be Attention Color Right Now Skins Barack

Author:John H. McWhorter

“I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.”

People Thinking Kind Enough Care Turns Black Color Skins Don't Care I Don't Care Hanging Out Black People Skin Color Just Friends

Author:Khloe Kardashian

“Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to define it and its implications. But there are basic things such as skin color and hair texture. Even a Martian who'd had no exposure to human "social constructs" would be able to spot those differences. But no Martian, as hard as he tried, could point at a "culture" or to "equality." Those are the social constructs. Those can't be measured in the same way as human DNA.”

Way Humans Hard Would Be Able Culture Given Social Easy Differences Race Color Hair Skins Spots Constructs Dna Exposure Implications Texture Skin Color Martians Basic Things

Author:Jim Goad

“[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin.”

Color Skins Islam

Author:Malcolm X

“It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and criminal exploitation of the American negro from the color of the skin of the person who is the oppressor or the exploiter.”

Persons Action Impossible Color Skins Criminals Oppression Exploitation Oppressors

Author:Malcolm X

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