Suzanne de Passe Quotes

I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.

Suzanne de Passe

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• In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Movie
  • Painting
  • Color

• I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Beauty
  • Hollywood
  • Sort

• The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Color

• I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Film
  • Special

• Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Racism

• I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Racism

• Black is not a color.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Black
  • Color

• Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Done
  • Think
  • Myself

• The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Believe
  • Science

• We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • Country
  • History

• I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Living
  • Hollywood
  • Elephant

• We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Believe
  • Color

• I like lip liners over lipsticks. I have so many of them from so many different brands, so I just pick the color that works.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Different
  • Color

• Film is better than digital in every way. It has better contrast ratio, better blacks, and better color reproduction. It's a more organic image, which is more the way your eyes see.

  

  James Gray
  • Eyes
  • Color

• In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Work
  • Black
  • Serious

• For a long time, because I'm pretty tall, I was scared to wear heels, but now I wear them all the time. I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life. I like short stuff, big heels, fringe, lots of fringe, sometimes sparkle, yeah!

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• We must be vigilant in sharing our stories and our truths as queer parents of color at every chance we get if we hope to see art imitate real life.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Life
  • Real
  • Art

• I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Time
  • Like
  • Books

• The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Action

• At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!'

  

  Dave Haywood Lady Antebellum

• It's important to stop and realize what we have, why we have it and how privileged we are. And from that place, start caring and get a lot done.

  

  Kayla Mueller
  • Important
  • Realizing
  • Caring

• The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.

  

  John Lawson

• I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.

  

  Suzanne de Passe
  • Color
  • Racism
  • Hollywood