Career Quote by Lonnie Johnson

I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer…

— Leonard Nimoy

I've always been a color person, whether that's through my clothes, hair, or music.

— Ravyn Lenae

I love putting people to work of color.

— Magic Johnson

As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt…

— Lance Reddick

For a long time I limited myself to one colour—as a form of discipline.

— Pablo Picasso

Sometimes, when I was the only person of color in a room, you had to defend all the people of color everywhere.

— Tanya Saracho

I knew a lot of black scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and female mathematicians and engineers, women of all backgrounds. So this idea that anyone…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

— Sidney Poitier

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer.…

— Elon Musk

At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.

— Bernice King

I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.

— Valerie June

I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist.

— Susan Rothenberg