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• To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

  William Blake

  Eye, Criticism, Shadow

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.655, Univ of California Press

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• I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Rocks, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.

  Thomas Hood

  Red, Corn, Poppies

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.148

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• A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: . . . . She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass.

  John Suckling

  Eye, Night, Glasses

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• When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.

  Barry Goldwater

  Christian, Race, Color

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• The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Daughter, Hair, Lines

  Charles Stuart Calverley, “The Auld Wife”

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• See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sunshine, Gold, Beard

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.146

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• The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

  Charles Kuralt

  Song, Winter, Singing

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• Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wine, Yellow, Black

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• With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.

  Alice Cary

  Work, Heart, Men

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.164

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• The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.

  Ernie Pyle

  Feet, Light, Soldier

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• It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.

  John Masefield

  Eye, Wind, Land

  John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

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• As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.

  Boris Johnson

  People, England, Prime

  "Johnson makes gaffes on all fronts" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2006.

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• Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue and green, or even a fleck or two of brown. Most people don't notice that.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Eye, Blue, Color

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.70, Ballantine Books

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• When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair

  George Osborne

  Failure, People, Looks

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• Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul.

  Scatman John

  Black And White, Men, Color

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• When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood Mac - the original Peter Green Fleetwood Mac, Saveloy Brown - like British blues interpretations of it,' which then, when I started the liner notes and seeing all these names, I was like, 'Who's Willie Dixon?' Then I go to the record store and ask the guy there and he goes, 'Oh, you don't know anything.' And so, to me, that's the root of most of it anyway.

  Paul Weller

  Years, Names, Roots

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• I think the old school, back in the day, 10 to 15 years ago in music, is like you launch one single and you just let that ride out. Right now, you've got folks like Chris Brown, he just won't let up, he's got mixtape after mixtape, they're playing songs on the radio from the mixtape and then he's got songs on the album and videos and he's got remixes he's jumping on.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Song, School, Thinking

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the advertising executives. So, an act of reclamation, somewhere else to be: that's what I want my music to be. Somewhere you can step into. A place.

  David Gray

  Kissing, Somewhere Else, Want

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• For example, you can eat a Caesar salad and say, "Wow, I ate so healthy today." You forget there was a quarter-cup of oil in there, and all the calories are from fat. So it's better if you eat a grilled chicken breast, some steamed brown rice, and a little salad with balsamic vinegar on top.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Oil, Healthy, Caesar Salad

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I just heard that some lead was coming into Newark into schools, and I asked the question, "Whose schools?" They said, "The Black and the Brown." Is that an accident? I don't think so. We are being designed to be destroyed - and unless we see that, and come together as a people under vicious attack we will suffer the consequences of evil that's in high places.

  Louis Farrakhan

  School, Thinking, People

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness that's in high places." It's in "high places" that the plot against Black and Brown, and poor White is going on; it's spiritual wickedness that's way up in the ruling classes of religious people who don't want to see the little man rise. It's the principalities and the powers.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Spiritual, Religious, War

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• God says, "Come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven." We don't need the Democratic Party. We don't need the Republican Party. We can get a little from both of them, but Elijah Muhammad said we need to form our own political machine.! A machine that works for the oppressed: The oppressed Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, White.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Party, Yellow, White

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• The way [Barack Obama] danced, it looked like he could dance in a circle with anyone from Chris Brown to ... well, I don't want to say Michael Jackson, because he's like the king.

  Common

  Kings, Circles, Want

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• My association with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is sort of predated by an effort that we were a part of here in New York City regarding the reaction to this 1954 Supreme Court [Brown v Board of Education] decision.

  Ella Baker

  Christian, New York, Cities

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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