Backgrounds Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Race is not something inherent to one's being: One does feel more or less colored, depending on the situation.

— Glenn Ligon

You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color.

— Alva Noe

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

— Zora Neale Hurston

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt…

— Jules Olitski

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

— Damien Hirst

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

— Sidney Poitier

When you wear colors, you're expressing yourself. Whether it's black, white, red, green, yellow, like crazy colors, you know, you're expressing yourself. That's how…

— Francisco Lindor

“I'm never one, distinct color but a dichotomy of dark and bright. The hues follow me, reflecting my mood, displaying every tone and shade…

— Linda Kage

I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to…

— Don DeLillo

Color has always evoked emotion for me: visually, internally, emotionally.

— Dawn Angelique