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Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.
How could I not be the underdog, starting at 35 and a half and going from a manager and a fourth-string color commentator to being a wrestler?
Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.
There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use and in what context it appears.
All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.
It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated.
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.
I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.
Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front - it's a powerful picture.
I always loved to paint. As a kid, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink. They gave colors to me to use, but I didn't like them very much.
I wore black until I was twenty-five, like many young people. Everybody did. It was crazy! But now, getting older, I think color does me good.
Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.
You have to understand when you're organizing with women of color, you can't use words like 'marginalized' and 'second-class citizen' loosely.
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.
I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.
I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.
It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.
When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens.
Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring.
I'm more into, like, colour than, like, the type of car and stuff. I don't know much about cars, so I'm just more into picking the right color.
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.
I would get so angry whenever I'd notice people looking at me weirdly. They'd even stop me on the street and ask questions about my skin color.
We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV.
I love old moons. There is something humanized about them; they are dulled a little, and rich in color. One can stare all night at an old moon.
I think the fashion industry was slightly put off by people they didn't know. They were presented with things like 20-gatefold color brochures.
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.
Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.
Sometimes I can't draw or take a picture of something, though, if the color is a certain way and the only way to see it is to see it in person.
As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.
I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.
Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.
Black absorbs all color, accepts them, takes them into it and let them define it. Gray isn't anything but itself. It absorbs nothing but itself.
What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?
Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.
I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave Gloves and umbrellas Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck
Girls of color and young women need to be seen, heard, and valued. Schools can help make this happen by including our stories in the curriculum.
My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.
The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.
I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or is she'll be sporting some other unnatural color especially for the Victor Tour.
Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.
At first, I didn't even realize how low on the totem pole I am. First of all, I'm a woman. Second of all, I'm of color. Third of all, I'm queer.