People Of Color Quotes
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People Of Color Quotes & Sayings
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I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, people will be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
People are like M&Ms. They come in a variety of colors, they're hard on the outside, and full of obscene yumminess on the inside.
— Michael Makai
I think viewing people by the color of their skin is one of the dumbest ways to view people.
— Bobby Jindal
People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.
— Spike Lee
So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong ... But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box.
— Jonathan Adler
It's important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment.
— Danny Glover
Khrushchev murders people without regard to race, color, or creed, and therefore whatever he is guilty of, he is not guilty of discrimination?
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.
— Orhan Pamuk
The trouble with wars is that they all look alike to people who aren't involved. Only the skin color of the dead is different.
— Jonathan Carroll
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
In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.
— Catharine MacKinnon
Some people don't believe in God but they color eggs at Easter just to change the pattern of their days.
— Don DeLillo
Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.
— Marla Gibbs
Your beauty will be in shades of melanin and light.
— R. YS Perez
I see a lot of people of color in my fanbase and at all my shows, and it's really awesome.
— Chaz Bundick
To be a good writer, become a good listener.
— Cynthia Briggs
My wearing my hair in locs on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive light, to remind people of color that our hair is good enough.
— Zendaya
There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
In fact, I think new media is going to make a big difference with injecting more people of color into Hollywood and non-Hollywood.
— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
— Henry Louis Gates
People of color are actually no more likely to be guilty of drug crimes and many other offenses than whites.
— Michelle Alexander
I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.
— Big Sean
I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.
— Chuck D
The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise
— Assata Shakur
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, ...
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Her eyes are gray, but not like those of people from the Seam. They're very pale, as if almost all the color has been sucked out of them.
— Suzanne Collins
You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.
— Jacqueline Woodson
Whereas for most whites racism is prejudice, for most people of color racism is systemic or institutionalized.
— Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.
— Howard Zinn
There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.
— Howard Zinn
I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.
— Katori Hall
I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.
— Valerie June
What makes people is not bone structure and eye color, but the force of their personalities. the years of experience painted on their faces.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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.
— Burton Rascoe
Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.
— Zoe Saldana
The lack of color in these places is what keeps people sick so long.
— Brandon Sanderson
He cared only about people; he was scarcely conscious of places except for their weather, until they had been invested with color by tangible events.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs
— Michelle Alexander
(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.
— Andy Warhol
Millions of people of color still experience racism daily.
— William J. Clinton
Black women were created of
brown sugar and warm honey.
the sweetest thing to bless the earth.
be wary of anyone who tells you otherwise. — Alexandra Elle
brown sugar and warm honey.
the sweetest thing to bless the earth.
be wary of anyone who tells you otherwise. — Alexandra Elle
Let's not judge people by the color of their skin but those who makes us feel we are different from each other".
- Abdulazeez Henry Musa. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa
- Abdulazeez Henry Musa. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.
— John Ridley
The only color I judge people by is the color of their teeth.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
— John Johnson
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.
— Jeremiah Wright
People say that red is the color of fate, right? Now you may think it's only troublesome, but it might connect you with something unexpectedly good.
— Sorata Akizuki
There are many people of color who are very talented.
— James D. Watson
History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.
— Paula Wall
Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring.
— Lilly Pulitzer
I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
— Madonna Ciccone
Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.
— Neil Gaiman
Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.
— Edward James Olmos
Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.
— Jennifer Estep
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
— Angela Davis
Do people ever get over being shy? I think it's with you for life-like the color of your eyes.
— Marilyn Monroe
If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.
— Chris Daughtry
You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
People are tired of mainstream media's limited and confined portrayal of people of color.
— Issa Rae
Even if I did climb to the top of that mountain one day, people will never stop seeing my color first, before me.
— Stacey Lee
We go out of our way to make people so different, ... to punish them because of color, because of sex, because of size, and the game starts.
— Bill Cosby
I love putting people to work of color.
— Magic Johnson