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Quotes About Color

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.
~ Cathy Hughes
I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.
~ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
~ Barbara Smith
I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.
~ Michaela Angela Davis
Women think black is the most flattering color, but they're wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink delights the eye.
~ Oscar de la Renta
A rainbow earns its colors in the storm.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
DEAR LIGHT : you colored my life, and then you destroy me!
~ Vergi Crush
A storm is an artist who passes by on her way to paint your rainbow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, 'This is going to be green?' I want that to be my job.
~ Theophilus London
The stark reality is that crime happens in communities of color.
~ Raymond Kelly
'The Starship Avalon' is perpetually mobile. The music is designed to give the impression of endless sleep and endless journey with a significant interruption that guides the story that follows. It's color and pulse followed by great size.
~ Thomas Newman
There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.
~ Robert Irwin
When accessorizing with chunky jewellery, choose bright colours that will stand out and bring alive your look. Statement pieces in bold colours can take your look to a different level and could even become a point of discussion.
~ Tena Desae
Trump's campaign is not a collection of ignorant statements. It is a candidacy of hate and fear that poses serious risks to people of color, women, people with disabilities, immigrants, and LGBTQ people.
~ Sarah McBride
I think it's important to realize that law enforcement does do a very good job oftentimes of trying to ensure the safety and security of their people. But oftentimes, where they fail is communities of color and in lower socioeconomic status communities where they discriminate against these people.
~ David Hogg
What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.
~ Annie Leibovitz
I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it had a kind of patina to it, like copper and bronze and so on. The color I used was a Benjamin Moore color called 2012. My then-young daughter started calling me 2012 - it was my nickname.
~ Michael Graves
bolinhos de bacalhau, the delicious codfish fritters cooked on every street corner. The riot of colour that existed everywhere, from the jungle flowers, to the women's stunning dresses, to the frescoes and stained glass windows of the tiny, baroque Chapel of St Rita, where they now stood. All of it made Gunther Hartog feel young again. Young and alive. 'What if Pierpont got wise?' The worry lines deepened on Jeff Stevens's face. 'What if…?
~ Tilly Bagshawe
The argument has been made that smart women on screen are already enough of a minority to make up for the lack of women of color. Nope. Not good enough.
~ Jenna Wortham
I'm always interested in projects. Whatever I do, I'm interested in the color of the material. I'm not interested in who's making it. I'm more concentrated on the work.
~ Vicky Krieps
The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.
~ Suzi Quatro
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
~ Florence Nightingale
Trans folk, especially of color, should not be obligated to help cis folk play catch-up on our experiences. The effort can detract from our work to protect and liberate ourselves.
~ Janet Mock
When I was 12 I was obsessed with green and had my mom get me a bunch of green bedding for my room.
~ Doja Cat