Color Quotes

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.

Character, Live, Children

Color Quote

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Green, Prime, Loveliness

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Rain, Storm

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Character, Content, Judged

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
Muhammad Ali

Wrong, Matter, Hating

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
Johnny Depp

Work, Good, Someone

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Eminem

Past, Person, Black

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
Eminem

Mind, Black, Trying

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve Jobs

Design, Together, Soul

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Words, Found, Shapes

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
Steve Jobs

Technology, Old, Worth

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
Malcolm X

Human, Respected, Regardless

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
Robert Kennedy

Change, Live, Him

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Thoughts, Soul, Becomes

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead

Age, Religion, Sex

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Thomas Sowell

Cannot, Else, Within

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Alice Walker

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
Bill Gates

Success, High, Quality

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
George Washington Carver

Life, Flower, Wanted

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
Madonna Ciccone

Life, Love, Humor

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.
Amy Grant

Real, Everything, Black

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
Emily Bronte

Life, Dreams, Mind

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
John Locke

Character, Around, Moral

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Wisdom, Mind

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Thomas Carlyle

Heart, Talent, Cut

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
Helen Hayes

Work, End, Hair

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Ambrose Bierce

Art, Making, Gift

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
Chinua Achebe

Food, Yourself, Someone

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Frederick Douglass

Character, Him, Less

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke

Political, Reality, Give

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