75 Colored Quotes for You to Enjoy

Bermuda's beaches are justly famed for their pink sands, colored by the pulverized shells of single-celled organisms called foraminifera. When occupied by bikini-clad sunbathers, the beaches, with Victorian primness, appear to be blushing. Jonathan Miles

Beaches Colored Occupied Shells Pink Blushing Victorian Justly Sands Organisms Appear

It will have to be a universal movement, and that will never be... because the big-league game, as it is now, is overrun with Southern blood. These fellows would have to stop at the same hotels, eat in the same dining rooms, and sleep in the same train compartments with the colored players. There'd be trouble for sure. Jud Wilson

Game Will Trouble Dining Would Eat Colored Never Hotels Fellows Sure Because Overrun Blood Train Southern Same Stop Movement Rooms Now Universal Players Sleep

Whenever I put on a colored thing, I feel like I'm in a costume. Like when I put on a gray shirt. Justin Theroux

Costume Colored Put Feel Like Shirt Whenever Thing Gray

I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color. Kerry Washington

You Woman Girl Single Back Pocket Shakespeare Color Onstage Colored Part Feel Like Been Any Just Should Her Monologue

I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like when I was a kid. What shocks me is that these kids today don't realize that this happened in many of our lifetimes. Lee Daniels

Today Me Water White Our Drank Kid Kids See Colored Lifetimes Like Shocks Just Happened Realize Many Fountain

I was a magazine illustrator for many years before I became an actor, and I used to think, 'Oh, God, all those wasted years!' But now I think it's just been one big enterprise of illustrating. I used to do it with colored pencils, and now I do it with this voice and this set of limbs. Michael Emerson

God Big Before Think Those Pencils Enterprise Magazine Voice Colored Limbs Became Been Years Oh Just Oh God Used Many Now Actor Wasted Illustrating Illustrator Set

I've colored my hair so many times, and nobody tells you the damage it's going to do! I went blonde and lost all my baby hairs. I'm not coloring it anymore. Never again. Michelle Phan

You Hair Lost Baby Tells Colored Coloring Never Hairs Nobody Blonde Times Going Anymore Again Many Damage

There was quite a ruckus about the seven ladies in their simple colored dresses. I was truly dumbfounded that I was, right then and there, deemed the biggest threat to black men since cotton pickin', and not all women were in my corner, either. Ntozake Shange

My father marched in Selma. My father was there in Alabama. That's where I was born. My birth certificate says 'colored.' It does not say I'm African-American or black. So for me, those are real realities that are not subject to opinion. Orlando Jones

Me Father Black Birth Birth Certificate Say Those Says Born Colored Opinion Does Real Subject Where African-American Realities Certificate Alabama

Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue is not bad, but again, you're just breaking from a classic. Paul Feig

In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farmers and hobbyists, however, their stems elongate, the caps are smaller, and a forest of golden colored needle-like mushrooms shoot up all at once. Paul Stamets

Long Mushroom Mushrooms Wild Once Rarely More Colored Stem Stems Smaller However Up Forest Than Shoot Often Golden Cap Farmers Caps Grown Twice Wide

I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations. Placido Domingo

Natural Singing Satisfied Melting Constantly Blacks Charm Voice Could Colored Colors Never Had Mere Primary Combinations Subtly Again Bursting Realized Then Less Paint Expressing

I was the first to wear colored skinny jeans. Playboi Carti

First Wear Colored Skinny Jeans

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made. Tim Reid

I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara. Zoe Kravitz

I was down in Wilmington, Delaware, doing 'The Desk Set' with Shirley Booth. I was at the DuPont Hotel. I walked out, and there was this grill next door called the New England Grill. I loved seafood. They said very nicely, 'We don't serve colored people.' Louis Gossett, Jr.

People Down Booth Out Wilmington Delaware Colored Hotel New New England Said Doing Shirley Very Walked Door Loved Grill Next Next Door Seafood England Nicely Serve Set Desk

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