[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women… — Michael Kors Copy Share Image
As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won't go. For me, India is such… — Keith Bellows Copy Share Image
The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Music is like color or acting or whatever. It's really something I think about from the beginning. Not that I always know… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
It's actually a character choice for a movie I've been filming in South Korea called Okja. My director had this idea of… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white… — Agona Apell Copy Share Image
[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the… — Benjamin Britten Copy Share Image
Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk.… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
There are literally hundreds of stories about women of color that haven't been told that are amazing, fantastic, better than anything else. — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
I started thinking about how rain is depicted in illustrations. In comics that use gouache or watercolor, they use light blue, so… — Lucien Smith Copy Share Image
I was pretty much a minimalist. I liked a lot of black at the time, which is very different from my wardrobe… — Roopal Patel Copy Share Image
If you take an intense color and put an intense complement next to it without graying it, it's very hot. The gray… — Simmie Knox Copy Share Image
I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE. — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
I listened wide-eyed, stupid. Glowing by her voice in the dim light. If chocolate was a sound, it would've been Constantine's voice… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“Some people see things in shades of gray, and some in black and white. I see mainly black, and while I have… — Aric Davis Copy Share Image
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to have the screen full of color, twenty colors on the screen at once, fifty colors. There are no dominants… — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
To pretend like Hollywood is anything other than that is disingenuous. #OscarsSoWhite is trendy, but for women filmmakers and filmmakers of color,… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists are disconnected from African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color. — Christine Tsai Copy Share Image
Jump start my kaleidoscope heart, Love to watch the colors fade, They may not make sense, But they sure as hell made… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image