Color Quotes

• I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character...is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • God
  • Children
  • Character

• There's a bunch of plays that I never got to do because I was either too young or too old for the parts, like 'Slow Dance on the Killing Ground' and 'Dutchman.' For 'American Buffalo,' I was the wrong color.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • American
  • Dance
  • Color

• Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Color
  • Say
  • Yellow

• We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Black
  • Color
  • Censorship

• A man's right to speak does not depend upon where he was born or upon his color. The simple quality of manhood is the solid basis of the right - and there let it rest forever.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Simple
  • Rest
  • Quality

• I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Live
  • Children
  • Character

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

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Movie
  • Painting
  • Director

• I don't know if I have a favorite color.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Know
  • Color
  • Favorite

• Our goal is to really have young women of color embrace the tech marketplace and the tech innovation space as both leaders and creators.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Women
  • Space
  • Innovation

• I believe it is incredibly important for women and people of color to become the builders and creators in technology. In order to do so, we need to know how to code or, at least, know the language of coding - what I like to call 'code speak.'

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• The great thing about being a standard-issue, straight white person is you have so much time. Gay people, people of color, we have less time! We have to be a living Learning Annex to everybody. We don't have time to master hobbies like skipping rocks along lakes.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Problem
  • Color
  • Line

• It doesn't matter what color you are. Poverty is poverty. Inmates come from all walks of life. We have to make sure we look out for these people and give them a chance.

  

  David Fizdale
  • People
  • Life
  • Poverty

• '2 Dope Queens,' it was just a way for us to showcase female comedians, showcase comedians of color, showcase LGBT comedians, and shake up the landscape and be like, 'Hey, there is more than just what is out there.'

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Up
  • Color
  • Dope

• The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Passion
  • Color
  • Red

• Our camps and workshops offer a space where girls of color can learn computer science and coding principles alongside their peers, with mentorship from female role models who have established themselves in tech fields where women, and minority women in particular, tend to be underrepresented.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Women
  • Science
  • Space

• First I will make different color tests: I will study the dark – deep blue, deep violet, deep dirty green, etc. Often I see the colors before my eyes. Sometimes I imitate with my lips the deep sounds of the trumpet – then I see various deep mixtures which the word is uncapable od conceiving and which the palette can only feebly reproduce.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Different
  • Eyes
  • Dark

• Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Color
  • Just
  • Bull

• For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Light
  • Color
  • Animals

• Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Music
  • Color
  • Harmony

• In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Good
  • God
  • Marriage

• Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Chance
  • Color
  • Performance

• It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Sex

• Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

  

  David Letterman
  • Fall
  • Color

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