Colored Quotes

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience. - David Antin

When I went down to Carolina, probably the biggest shock was when I went to the movies, they had an entrance for colored and an entrance for white and they had water fountains for colored and water fountains for white. That was a little bit of a culture shock. . . . (King) did amazing things back then. Unless you were a white supremacist, everybody loved him. It was a difficult time losing him. . . . Fortunately, things kept getting better (because of King's influence). - Doug Moe

When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom. - Harry Belafonte

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready! - Greg Kinnear

When I was 17 I saw the movie Clueless, and that fashion was my life. The outfits from Judy's were the outfits I'd wear. I literally had at least 10 of the outfits Cher had. Also it was pretty cool to have different colored beepers. I'd change my color every weekend. - Kim Kardashian

When I bring you colored toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colors on clouds, on water, and why flowers are painted in tints. - Rabindranath Tagore

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it. I would ask my mother and ask my parents over and over again, why? They said, that's the way it is. Don't get in the way, don't get in trouble. I was so inspired by Rosa Parks in 1955. I was 15 years old. I was inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr. I heard his words on all radio. It seemed like he was saying to me, John Lewis, you too can make a contribution. - John Lewis

Whatever happens, she'll deal with it in her art. After her father's death, she talked about finding an incredible trove of 100-year-old sepia-colored letters in her father's attic. This is in the film. She talks about what she might do with these letters. She said she might even bring new colors into her palate as a result of the discovery. - Erica Rothman