It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
Imagine a wall that's green on one side and red on the other. You stand on one side and only see green.… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
“To my surprise, I had not just doodled, I had prayed (I drew new shapes and names of each friend and focused… — Sybil MacBeth Copy Share Image
I got like a list of things at the beginning. There were ten things that Bryan made for each one of us,… — Johnny Simmons Copy Share Image
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer.… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
Red has been praised for its nobility of the color of life. But the true color of life is not red. Red… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
I love old cookbooks. I just got such a kick out of them, how the color would be way off or fake… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
“For the wishes of one’s old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I will fall on my face sometimes And I can't color inside the lines 'Cause I'm perfectly incomplete I'm still working on… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy,… — Neal McDonough Copy Share Image
I am all for loving relationships in which the couple at the center are a match set in terms of height, weight,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
It's so hard to do fittings [for Yeezy] because we want to do things that are inspiring, that people could look at… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation... so when I meet someone who's an 8-color… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the… — Louis Adamic Copy Share Image
Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in.… — John Hench Copy Share Image
Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
I feel like we're looked at as either completely nonsexual characters or overly sexual characters, and I feel like that affects how… — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Copy Share Image
You're wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they wear colors, but there's no color… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
We live in a world that is dominated by science. And that's not a bad thing - not at all. But one… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color,… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
When a rainbow appears vividly in the sky, you can see its beautiful colors, yet you could not wear as clothing or… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the… — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I was talking to Shonda Rhimes the other day and I said, "I. Do. Not. Know. How. You. Do. This." While we're… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
![“It's so hard to do fittings [for Yeezy] because we want to do things that are inspiring, that people could look at and say, "Wow, I like that color palette, I could put that together." And there are so many images of things that it's almost impossible to have your clothes go up against the amount…” quote by Kanye West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e23/kanye-west-242_amount_it-s-so-hard-to-do-fittings-for-yeezy-be_765790.jpg)
![“Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/diane-ackerman-1035_cities_symbolic-of-life-hair-bolts-from-our-hea_194991.jpg)
