Colorblind Quotes

“Only those who are color blind speak of black and white.”
― Giovannie de Sadeleer

“The trouble with colorblind ideologies in text and culture is that by not noticing race, writers and other creatives do the work of encoding it as taboo. While silence and evasion around race in dystopian science fiction is 'understood to be a graceful, even generous, liberal gesture', implying the inevitability of a postracial future, this silence also has the effect of confusing readers.”
― Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

“I saw a woman wearing yellow Nikes, so I said, “I love your red shoes.” She told me they are yellow, and I said, "I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you are colorblind.” Then I asked her if she wanted to buy a Pekin duck, because we could both agree that its beak was orange.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“The blueberries are tasting extra blue this year. That surprises me, because my tongue is color blind.”
― Jarod Kintz, Me and memes and memories

“The drunkard who is colorblind still sees where is the wine. (L'ivrogne qui est daltonien - Voit quand même où est le vin.)”
― Charles de Leusse

“The journey into a colour-blind heart is a long one but it is one we must endure so as not to allow injustice to continue through our children and into the future.”
― Aysha Taryam