Color Quotes

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung.

I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.

Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

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.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.

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

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.

The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin.

There are many people of color who are very talented.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. I had great satisfaction in doing that.

Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.