A Quote by Mellody Hobson

It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.

Mellody Hobson

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Mellody Hobson
American - Businessman
Born: April 3, 1969

Don't be color blind, be color brave. Embrace diversity as a competitive advantage.

Mellody Hobson

We cannot afford to be color-blind, we have to be color-brave.

Mellody Hobson

I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave.

Mellody Hobson

'Color-blind' comes up - people say 'Oh, I'm color-blind and therefore can't be accused of racism,' but I think that if we are going to have an honest dialogue about racism, we have to admit that people of color are having a different experience.

Justin Simien

I think that we need to make sure that we have frank conversations about race and color and discrimination within this country.

Daniel Cameron

All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.

Sergei Bongart

Money is color-blind, race-blind, sex-blind, degree-blind, and couldn't care less who brought you up or in what circumstances.

Felix Dennis

When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.

William Tapley Bennett Jr.

I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.

J. C. Watts

As citizens, I'm asking you not to leave any child behind. I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave, so that every child knows that their future matters and their dreams are possible.

Mellody Hobson

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.

Rebecca Solnit

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.

Ricardo Montalban

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.

Toni Morrison

The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about something. It's difficult. So often color gets caught up in color, and it becomes merly decorative. Some photographers use it brilliantly to make visual statements combining color and content; otherwise it is empty.

Mary Ellen Mark

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

Yves Klein

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