Color Quotes

• Because of the success of 'Hamilton' and 'On Your Feet!' you can't hide behind the old argument of, 'It needs to be bankable, so we can't put all these people of color in the show.' We are bankable.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • People
  • Success
  • Color

• We're looking at a story we want to call "Am I Black enough for you?" That's that whole question of who determines what "Black enough" is. Is it color? And if it's color, then are you telling me that Clarence Thomas is Blacker than Louis Farrakhan? If it's not color then what's the line that determines whether you are?

  

  Ed Gordon
  • Black
  • Story
  • Determines

• Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

  

  Adam Young
  • Music
  • Color
  • Dreaming

• The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

  

  Judge Mills Lane
  • Color
  • Nothing
  • Wears

• Over the years, so many of the barriers that prevented people from getting married, crossing lines of faith or color or ethnicity have just disappeared. Because what's important is: 'Are you making a responsible decision? Have you thought it through? Do you understand the consequences?' And I think in the world that we're in today we need more of that.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Faith
  • Barriers

• Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple - the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.

  

  Bert McCracken
  • Black
  • Tragedy
  • Skins

• Blue to get ready Green to go Yellow to guide you through the snow Orange to warn you that over you’ll go Then red will be the final glow Now seek the black, there’s no going back.

  

  Angie Sage
  • Back
  • Guide
  • Warn

• I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Actors
  • Company
  • Narrative

• Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in... as you ride through life.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • World
  • Skins
  • Determine

• Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Color

• Everyone always says to me, 'Why aren't there more people of color on television?' I'm like, 'Why don't you ask a bunch of people who aren't putting people of color on television why there aren't more people of color on television?'

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Television
  • Asks
  • Bunch

• Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Home
  • Age
  • Team

• The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature, to the breathtaking array of possibilities that can emerge, tangled and wild, from the fertile human endowments of brain and larynx, intelligence and social skills.

  

  Arika Okrent
  • Nature
  • Possibilities
  • Shape

• The color of a person's skin had nothing to do with the content of their character.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Character
  • Content
  • Skin

• Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?

  Etel Adnan
  • Musician
  • Cover
  • Banker

• I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn't available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don't know that it's seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count?

  

  Andy Cohen
  • Morning
  • Color
  • Tea

• Yellow's never been a good color for me, but it's actually grown on me. I like it more than I used to!

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Color
  • Grown
  • Used to

• I've never bothered about my color.

  

  Tina Turner
  • Black
  • Color
  • Bothered

• At first glance, The Color Run does look a lot like Holi. Its website is populated by photos of people throwing coloured powder at each other and in the air, outdoors, at the start of spring. The only difference, it seemed, was that there was a 5 km. run added in. And that it cost $54.99 to participate.

  

  Elizabeth Flock
  • People
  • Air
  • Spring

• Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

  

  Josephine Baker
  • Soul
  • Free
  • Brotherhood

• Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

  

  Andrew Loomis
  • Art
  • Purpose
  • Color

• Never use an aluminum pot, pan, or utensil when cooking tomatoes - or any other soft metal items for that matter. The acidity in the tomato doesn't do well with them; they create a chemical reaction that can turn cooked tomatoes bitter and fade the color, and the food will absorb some of the aluminum!

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Food
  • Cooking
  • Bitter

• It's a darker season. A lot of dark color.

  

  Amy Astley
  • Dark
  • Color
  • Season

• For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I'm looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I'm bringing up and addressing.

  

  Nathan Oliveira
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Painting

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