Colour Quote by Marlon James Download Open image “As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator.” — Marlon James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Colour Colour Victim Perpetrator Victim Victim Perpetrator Writer Writer Colour Writing You
“ A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.” — Dee Dee M Scott Copy Share Image
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
“Neither black/red/yellow nor woman but poet or writer. For many of us, the question of priorities remains a crucial issue. Being merely "a writer"… — Trinh T. Minh-ha Copy Share Image
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. — Arna Bontemps Copy Share Image
You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're… — John Cho Copy Share Image
As a person of color, there's no getting around the reality of its responsibility. — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I'm not a person that really deal in color. I recognize the inequities that certain cultures have to go through. I understand the history… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
Sometimes people of color walk into these spaces that are dominated by the dominant culture, and we have to be better, not make as… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
“Nobody falls that way without being pushed. I know. And I know how it feels and looks, a body that falls fighting air all… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“I miss you, sister," he say. "I miss me too," she say. Always too clever but not clever enough to know when to blow… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
At 28 years old, seven years out of college, I was so convinced that my voice outed me as a fag that I had… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“The white man say we’re fighting for freedom from totalitarianism, terrorism and tyranny, but nobody know what he mean. I” — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“Nineteen seventy-six come and bring an election with it. The man who bring guns to the ghetto made it clear, that there is no… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“She not black, she mulatto. Mulatto, mulatto, mulatto. Maybe she be family to both and to hurt white man just as bad as hurting… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
“Shiny like new zinc holding up a roof or a fence right beside old zinc, the material itself a living history of when last… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity. — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre.… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection.… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a… — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of… — Chris Hani Copy Share Image
Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image