Quotes with color

  • Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
  • I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
  • Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
  • It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
  • They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.
  • I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
  • Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
  • We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
  • Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
  • The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
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  • Rabindranath Tagore Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Booker T. Washington Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
    An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (1909)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Booker T. Washington We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Barbara Smith A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bryan Cogman After we map out all the main characters' individual arcs, using color-coded index cards, we arrange them by episode and get a rough idea of the scene order.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Jesse Jackson America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Beatrice Wood And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Calvin Trillin Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Bobbi Brown As a makeup artist, I learned quickly that the color of your lips affects the way a lipstick looks. If you see your friend wearing a great color, don't assume it will be right for you.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • Edmund Burke Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Antoni Gaudi Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
    Antoni Gaudi
    Catalan architect
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  • James Baldwin Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Paul Klee Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Benjamin Britten Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bobbi Brown Don't use your skin tone as a guide to choosing the color of your eye shadow. Rather, for everyday application, pick shades of shadow that bring out your eye color.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • Anais Nin Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Bobbi Brown Every season has its lipstick trend, and just because your perfect color is a pinky beige, that doesn't mean you can't wear deep burgundy.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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