African americans Quote by Ann Petry

“There were places, she now saw, that contained more happiness than ordinary places did. Unless you knew that such places existed, you might be…

— Matthew Thomas

“The house was decorated in unrelieved white and black. The people were, too. If it were up to me, I would carry a great…

— Karen Marie Moning

“We made safe places in the apartment where you could go and not exist.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Houses had the meanest set of white people in them. Pretty in their living but nasty in their ways.”

— Sarah E Wright

“I wanted to live in a house with walls painted in various shades of blue and green, instead of the eggshell hue that screamed…

— Tayari Jones

“Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family. Maybe that was her color of extraordinary.”

— Jandy Nelson

“I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted…

— Heather Anastasiu

“But it was a rich, picture-perfect, it-can't-happen-here kind of suburb where people had gone, not to deal with life's problems, but to avoid them.”

— Richard Peck

“All around her was color - rich, vibrant color. She was the only colorless thing in this whole house.”

— Liane Moriarty

“There were hardly any coloured people in the town I grew up in – how am I to know?’ And she hated herself for…

— James Baldwin

“Her life was like her house—a colorful fantasy where anything was possible if you wanted it badly enough.”

— Maeve Binchy

“It was a lovely landscape. It was idyllic, poetical, and it inspired me. I felt good and noble. I felt I didn't want to…

— Jerome K. Jerome