So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
It's a struggle but that's why we exist so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves or their history all over again.
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
The little may contrast with the great in painting but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other that is which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
The primary victims of Katrina those who were given the least help by the government those rescued last or not at all were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.
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.
Where lipstick is concerned the important thing is not color but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is to a landscape artist not only a plant - rare unusual ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color a shape a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
It's so different when you change your hair color you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.
I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.
Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.
My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.
Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it and fight for it we must be prepared to extend it to everyone whether they are rich or poor whether they agree with us or not no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
This June I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen Colorado. For many years my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event for the past seven years my daughter Claudine has been my cooking partner on stage.