On the opposite bank, the trees began to thin out, and the next time they camped, the earth was the color of ocher and smelled of metal. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was constructing model molecules by connecting colored gumdrops that were supposed to represent atoms, but she got distracted pretending the gumdrops were the Beiderman’s eyes and she was stabbing them with the toothpicks. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Brightly colored couches—all red, gold, and white—and thick white rugs dot the living room space. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gerry had a good job as a color matcher in a button factory, mixing dyes to any color a retailer wanted to make his dresses distinctive. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She wore lipstick, the same color pink me and my friends wore. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was a sleep packed with dreams of swirling colors, as if I were in the midst of a gigantic kaleidoscopic whirlpool. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But prison, it occurred to me, is actually a world of two sides— two colors of uniforms—the “us” and the “them.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was painted pale blue and pink—the same color as the lake and the peach trees along its shore. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It’s slate gray, the color of undeveloped film. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I stand in this box that fills up with a certain kind of light that’s supposed to help me get color back in my spots.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had never seen a butterfly with such vivid coloring. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There were women wearing saris the color of jewels, many of them woven with gold. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Since the basement doesn’t get as much light as upstairs, we should stick to lighter colors.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

That was why she liked bright colors, or anyway, that was her theory about why she liked bright colors: because flowers and tangerines were bright. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The long streaks of yellow light lay between the shadows of the tree trunks, and the snow was colored faintly pink. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered those eyes from her color wheel of memories and she felt better. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I slide into the seat, I might as well be made of the same colors as the desk and the metal chair legs. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

There is no path to liberation for communities of color that includes this ongoing war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Above the placards are the tiled arches the same color as the misty sky. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t eat at the Birmingham Country Club, of course—people of color couldn’t. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of admiring these colors, I spot something that makes me look again. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at the mother, I assume she feels happy and joyful wearing her colored clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When said lord reached inside the helm and drew out a large purple melon dribbling pulp, he wheezed until his face turned the same color as the fruit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like most businesses in that part of town the sweet shop was run and owned entirely by colored people, and Ophie realized she had never ever seen such a thing before. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Vivid colors glistened wet in the bright light. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In the colored part of the cemetery, they sank Chicken Little in between his grandfather and an aunt. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed at colors—the crimson flower just out of reach, the ebony bird streaking past. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Later Charlie taught Joe how to decipher the subtle clues of shape, texture, and color that would enable him to cleave the wood into well-formed shakes, to see hidden points of weakness or resilience. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Guests move in flocks of color from the ballroom through the halls and the library, a constantly shifting rainbow punctuated with laughter and chatter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was a dark, young fellow, not much older than Rab, and something in both his color and carriage had always made Johnny think of Rab. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least seven different shades of hair color that did not occur in nature. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he twisted and turned the car through Tijuana, Lupita could hear noise and she could even see the dim colors of the traffic lights overhead through the canvas. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

We won’t allow the color of a man’s heart to be the color of his skin, the premise of his beliefs, and his self-worth. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was like listening to a hundred different renditions of “Redemption Song,” each in a different color and key. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“She insisted she was colored and just as good as white,” Ward informed the judge. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I also asked him to make the pasta for the first course: morels sauteed in butter with thyme and, for color, the tiny fava beans, over fresh egg fettuccine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I’ll buy a T-shirt in every color until I find the one that suits me best. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s another map made entirely from seeds, and one made from cut straws of different sizes and colors, too. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Drove by and saw a rabid cat attacking a little colored girl. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I look down at my sketchpad, where the freak is exploding into the room in a burst of color. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A stack of books in a familiar maroon color stood out to Emily. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He pointed at my hands as he dragged me out toward Old Familiar, and I watched with growing horror as their dark brown color slowly turned transparent. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her avatar lost its human form and dissolved into a pulsing amorphous blob that changed its size and color in synch with the music. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you another day. Now we must work. And I’ve thought of a way to help you with the concept of color. “Close your eyes and be still, now. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bicycle pulled up before the porch, a seventeen- year-old colored boy on it, all arms and feet and long legs and round watermelon head. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reading always makes me tired because sometimes I get so caught up in the rainbowlike colors of the words that I have to read passages over and over. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what the Ku Kluxers do to colored people?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nicasia’s limbs are long and perfectly shaped, her mouth the pink of coral, her hair the color of the deepest, coldest part of the sea. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The water in the fishbowls rippled and waved as the fish gazed calmly; their brilliant colors against the abundant green land glinted like gold and jade. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You say I’m a woman and colored. Ain’t that the same as being a man?” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

From various and uncountable tributaries, in creeks and brooks of color and motion, the parts of this river had joined, become one mother current, and flowed on. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Without light, there is nothing. We might as well be blind people. No light or colors.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A garish red abrasion colored his fore- head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I laughed the way white folks always do when they tell something funny a colored person said. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Each of these items, too, must be returned to its precise place, matched by color, pattern, price, and size. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second one was a deep garnet color and looked newer. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam had seen and studied a fine color broadside which set forth the valley as that region which heaven unsuccessfully imitated. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Add the effects of the environment—the impact of nutrition on height, or sunlight exposure on skin color—and Fisher could imagine even more unique combinations and effects, ultimately generating perfectly smooth curves. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My mom won’t buy us any because she says it’s nothing but sugar mixed with chemicals to make it neon colors, and it’ll give you cancer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Caesar was like no colored man she had ever met. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Entubed, damaged children of all colors danced on my head and arms and hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least the color returns to her face, though. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The long mane of grizzled gray hair was withdrawing into the scalp and turning the color of straw. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A visitor sees twisting streets, tidy clapboard houses with colored roofs, shops for tourists and locals, and people dressed in boots, parkas, scarves, and woolen hats pulled over their ears. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A massive bonfire was burning at the center, which had been emptied of market stalls and was now filled with revelers in costumes of all colors and kinds. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly he pushed through the crowd until he saw a white girl fighting with a colored girl by the ticket booth of the flying-jinny. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"The Fashion Minister sent a hundred dresses. I advised him that I'd like for you to match the house, so he used the teahouse colors as inspiration." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She has swatches of colors and samples of flowers. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The pavilion and courtyard had painted walls and floors of colored sand and clay; heavy sculptural objects, including several of the trademark heads, studded the area. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The sky took on a light gray color. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin is the same cinnamon-tea color as mine, a shade darker than most mestizos’ skin. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of them spoke about Mrs. Caruthers killing her son’s first fiancée, a woman who had been her personal maid and a colored girl light enough to pass as white. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“He read this book call Invisible Man. When he done, he say he gone write down what it was like to be colored working for a white man in Mississippi.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She had no fear for Pantalaimon: the room was somber colored, and he could always creep under a chair. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was a color pattern in the huge crowds. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My Datsun”—Mum offered some braised celery to Aunt Alice, who made a No thanks gesture—“passed its MOT with flying colors last week.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Tell me more. Any other strong opinions on colors? Shapes? Patterns? I have a feeling you’re a very interesting person.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You probably memorized the colored letters when you were a baby,” she says. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He bought me cheap gifts: a glass figurine, a prickly brooch of cut glass, a silver- colored cigarette lighter. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the girls stayed in the night before the social, but some of the younger ones were going out to the colored saloon that had recently opened. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Several small, brightly colored objects zoomed out of George’s pocket; he made a grab for them but missed, and they sped right into Mrs. Weasley’s outstretched hand. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Public buildings, statues, monuments, even trees, met the evening in their original bland colors and reemerged the next morning painted in the sparkling “liberation colors” of red, black, and green. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when the other kids in Soweto called me “white,” even though I was light brown, I just thought they had their colors mixed up, like they hadn’t learned them properly. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“No, he wasn’t colored. He was scum. Some Yankee from New York, the kind you see on the TV with the long hair and the peace signs.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her paintings feel organic to me, like breathing abstractions of color. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listened in as adults spoke about what they thought of themselves and other community members based on color. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I look into his eyes—they are dark blue, a strange color—and take it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Listen, boy, you’re going to speak to both white and colored people that night. What can you alone think of saying to them? You have no experience . . .” I burned. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A stack of books in a familiar maroon color stood out to Emily. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The rainbow rushed toward the cubs in a swirl and wrapped them in its misty colors. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Me and Leo sit side by side, staring at light and colors radiating from the computer screen. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s not the color” was all she said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“How we doing here? Oh, you look gorgeous. That color takes ten years off.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We had colored kids and Indian kids, and even a handful of Chinese kids, too. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her fingernails shimmer like the bright color of its leaves. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Barefoot atop the peach- colored mound, their faces smeared with dirt, they quickly scoop the sawdust into rusty tin cans and dump it into big white plastic bags. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He had sparse white hair and eyes the color of turquoise. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Some accident of eye shape and eye color, it is. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He handed Venkatesh a stack of well- worn spiral notebooks—blue and black, the gang’s colors. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I collect each dog’s breed, age, color, weight, and gender, and the number of days it took to be adopted. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The entire expanse of window was filled with books arranged by color and stacked atop one another like LEGOs to create the Bayside Press symbol. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Rab had nothing except an uncommonly high color in his face and a look of intense pleasure. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all been turned into tarnished metal, the color of a worn-out penny. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She is the color of a bar of naphtha laundry soap, she is like the little brown piece left at the end of the wash, the hard little bone, my sister. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They removed their raincoats to reveal robes of all colors, all textures. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Against the descending sun the battlements were dark and clean- lined, while to the east, where the uninhibited light poured slantwise, the strange landscape shouted with color. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She acted just as refined as whitefolks in the movies and books and she was more beautiful, for none of them could have come near that warm color without looking gray by comparison. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, just before dawn, there is no color to be seen in Le Cirque des Rêves save for their small splashes of scarlet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You know where that colored girl lives?” he asked. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wardrobe doors open and the interior explodes with color. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing there but what had always been there: empty ocean the color of pewter, tarnishing to black now as night fell. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The instant I do, the previously blank desk lights up soft stripes in our team colors, with a welcome message for me over it in white text. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Parts of it are painted a blinding turquoise color, and there’s a plaque on the brick part, but he can’t see from this distance. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Her eyes had been outlined in silver paint, and the color trailed down her cheeks in wondrous curls of gleaming light. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not heard the speech of America, smelled the grass and trees and sewage, seen its hills and water, its color and quality of light. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Matt thought he’d been bored before, it was nothing compared to writing the same letters, coloring the same pictures, and counting the same wretched beads and flowers all over again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The widow of a big Boston lawyer, she collected funds for various ventures, the publication and dissemination of colored literature a particular concern. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed strange that there could be so much color and beauty, and then when you got to Malone everything was tan and gray and black steel bars and wire. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Oh yeah, I put a little meat on my bones, got some color in my skin, and those pimples even went away. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was on his side, propped up on one elbow, and I noticed that the color in his face was much better. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It seems kind of crazy that just a little bit of light could bring the color back to my skin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I march over and grab a handful of colored pencils, putting them safely back in the pencil holder they belong in. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But neither 14th Street nor any other area had the colors of 125th Street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then, through the gloom, I saw her—a woman the color of the water, a ghost in the current, floating just above the sword. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I let disapproval color my tone, though I was relieved he hadn’t given her an absolute no. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“About a gazillion! Every color in the rainbow!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Judge Ford did not remember a mole; she remembered copper- colored hair and thin lips, but it was so long ago, and well—Mrs. Westing was white. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see that one of them was riding a light colored horse. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the head rode the King, for only he wore the royal colors and the royal quarterings of the banners. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Lily had heard from someone that there were only a few colored kids there and nobody talked to them and they had to huddle together at lunchtime while people ignored them. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Before she left for the summer, she told me the boys would pay more attention to me if I colored my hair blond. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Though she is poor, like us, she has a sharp fashion sense, matching unusual colors and patterns in ways that somehow make sense. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

These clumps of whispering girls with their spools and colored wool tails have to do with boys, with the separateness of boys. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He'd started the local community garden down the block and preserved his favorites in frames, decorating the deli's whitewashed walls with the brightest colors nature could provide. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Smoke from the engine drifted over the heads of the chattering crowd, while cats of every color wound here and there between their legs. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They aren't finished—they need to be colored in, and decorated, and turned into something much prettier than what they are. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For so long, society has told me that because of my neighborhood and the color of my skin, I would never amount to anything. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The blind man’s bird was marvelously colored, as if it had flown through a rainbow and been stained by the colors. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had enough of this. For the last time, numbers do not have colors. Now, are you going to complete the assignment?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The puppy was a combination of several colors, big feet, a whirligig of a tail, and lopsided ears. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

To Carla's bafflement, those cars had names beyond the names of their color or size. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Not the sniffly kind of winter-sick that everyone gets when the leaves change colors, but a real kind of sick. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Store-bought, and so many colors,” Cari said when she tore into her package and saw the ribbons Naomi had gotten her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tell her yes and look at May, her face as yet wrinkleless, so round, her full cheek pinching her narrow eyes, the color and curve so durably Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They started firing questions at me, wanting to know what color it was, and what it tasted like. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the fairies were everywhere, near and far, shimmering in vivid colors. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The ceiling lights in the limo changed color from violet to blue then to green and to yellow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

One honest employer confirmed the truth in these worries: blacks were hired “solely on account of the shortage of labor....As soon as the situation clears itself no more colored help will be employed.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The green visor cast a deadly color upon her face, upon the Dutch cookie crumbs that rimmed her thin lips. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When people had the same parents and the proportion of white blood was not a factor, gradations of color and features determined prestige within the family. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had curling, mousy brown hair and a pale face with two spots of color high on each cheek. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And what a strange sight he was with his black tunic, legs of two colors, split hat bobbing, and bells jangling. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

His chests each wore a different color Western shirt—green, yellow, red, like a stoplight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Matt spent the morning copying letters and coloring in pictures. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them raised colored tents, some of them arrived in their own caravans drawn by huge grey horses or by small, shaggy ponies. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The door closes just as I bump into a man who is trying to keep his balance by holding on to the silver pole that is covered with sweaty hands of all colors and sizes. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

However, from the color of his rays she knew at a glance whether he was hatching a swindle, and she could defuse one of his tantrums with a few simple, mocking words. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patches of orange lichen made the only bright color, and a high-water mark on the cliff walls showed that their landing site was not at all safe. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They were the most magnificent animals I had ever seen—red horses, blue horses, horses of all colors—draped in gold and flowers, heads high, hooves raised as if prancing to the music. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The planet’s color doesn’t come from spilled blood of battle. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

To me, my losing was only another manifestation of that queer, material way of American living that computed everything in terms of the concrete: weight, color, race, fur coats, radios, electric refrigerators, cars, money ... Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here inside was a fairyland of colors and sounds, crowded with people on this Saturday afternoon, artificially lit and planted. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She followed June to her front porch, where at least two dozen pieces of paper were scattered over the stone floor, along with about thirty different shades of colored pencils. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Before the camps, Nikkei were trying to ride the American power like some surfers she saw once at Manhattan Beach, muscular men balancing on long, colored boards atop the rushing waves. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Always the same color, always the same size. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

One of these girls will wear a new color or style of belt or a button-plate hat tilted to one side, and that afternoon I’ll pore through our vendors’ catalogs to find similar designs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The water had turned a deep golden color, and then red, purple, and finally black. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I no more can guess the assumptions that go along with glittering sneakers than a child in a dragon costume knows what real dragons would make of the color of her scales. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"My skin is getting old and doesn't take color well anymore, can you fix that?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His wet hair was shiny, the color of dark cinnamon. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Each one was painted a different pastel color and had a card affixed to it announcing the name of the room. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her blond hair was tucked into a ski cap and her gray eyes were the same color as the ocean. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And often on my trip I used it for warmth and color as well as light. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like the color on your face.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then closest to the ground was a huge cloud which was colored gray because it was a rain cloud. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Its every curve was an iridescent medley of color. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Back in Marshall, no one said anything about my color, but life was different because of it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had noticed with a terrible pang of fear that the drops were falling on a face, depicted in tiny pieces of colored stone. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

His house was detached from those around it, surrounded by flowers that bloomed in splendid colors and overwhelming fragrances. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The tangle of lines showed him the mechanics of this parody; he examined the white nasal bones, the teeth, the colors of corruption. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“It reminds them of the big salt—that’s the ocean. Since ghosts can’t cross water, they stay away from the color.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The new girl stared up, her mouth open slightly, saying nothing as she watched the sky shift and dance, a wash of shapes and colors. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They were the stories of all the colored people she had ever known, the stories of black people yet to be born, the foundations of their triumphs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Don’t believe I seen nan one colored person in the whole dang city. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s easy to remember, because it’s the color blue, like without the e, and then three, six, nine, like, you know, you just keep adding three.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His trousers sported multiple patches of various colors and materials, and his purple velveteen jacket had buttons made from—were those spools of thread? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I could see the brown color of his eyes again. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of her body was its natural shade—more the color of fawn than coal. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t choose by the name, though, but by the color. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the drinks came up in the bathroom they were brilliant-hued, perfectly clear, a rush of vibrant acid turquoise the color of Ty-D-Bol. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She sat with the girl, blowing bubbles—lovely, lurid, mostly magical things, with pretty colors swirling on their surfaces. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The three girls on their team have red hijabs on, and I wonder if they were informed about their team color ahead of time. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The sun turned white, the color and shape of the host. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I liked him immensely, his sullenness, his corpselike color, except when he was lodged in a good mood, when he became overbearing and megalomaniacal. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have often wondered what I might have become in life had society’s doors been more open to me—a child and youth of color—in the 1950s and 1960s. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The color was draining from Javier’s face, his lips were the wrong hue, they were so wrong, it was all wrong. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The colors were so vivid in the bleakness of the ruins that the jacket seemed to glow. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I said, “Check out that color, Mom. You’d better notify the Architectural Committee.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And that is the various reason why I’m a whole lot more fortunate than most colored girls,’ Portia said as she opened the door. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a pack of colored markers by his elbow. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We are a family—not perfect, not all the same, some rich, some poor, all kinds of religions and skin colors, some born in America and some immigrating here. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Four of them stood in a line, two sets of twins, distinct mostly because of their hair color. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They lived in a place called Michigan, where the birds seemed to come in only one color, and where no one knew them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Brown, green, even a little gold in there. I’ve never seen so many colors in a pair of eyes.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

One boy and one girl have hair the color of wheat waving in the sun. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“That the women make cuts and bums on their faces and bodies to make pictures on them. Then they put colored dyes in the cuts and bums. They think it makes them look beautiful.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

From each dome rose a needlelike spire, all of them snapping with swallowtail flags and interconnected by ribbons across which children ran laughing, clad in cloaks of colored feathers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The eyes, mouth, and skin color were painted on its wax head in disturbing hues. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Their lips were also painted with bright colors. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There are blue, green, brown colors; all good colors; blue means happiness; green, nature; brown, earth. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He sat in the bath, watching the color of the bathwater change. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Here everything was colors to me: the red clang of the streetcars, blue music from phonographs, silver laughter of people. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A plane crossed the horizon, colored lights blinking. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They weren’t preoccupied, as part of our nation seemed to be, with race and skin color. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

September come and a church in Birmingham blows up into a million pieces, with four little colored girls inside. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I then took to wheeling in a big color television so that we might spend an hour watching One Life to Live. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He told them to get up into the back of a dusty old pickup truck the color of canned peas. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peer outside again as the world becomes a blur of light and color. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I hope the darkness hides the rising color in my cheeks. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Her breath was white as well... but her eyes were blue, her long braid the color of dark honey, her cheeks flushed red from the cold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The need for trade schools, colored medical schools. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Last night I made out the objects but the color was missing. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We advocated the redivision of land on an equitable basis; the abolition of color bars prohibiting Africans from doing skilled work; and the need for free and compulsory education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I thought I'd buy her a pair that matched mine, but there are more colors now, including a mossy green that I know she'd love. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the Sue Monk, Kidd color of age. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had submitted an extensive clemency petition to the governor with affidavits from family members and color photographs, but I didn't expect anything in response. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My boys are opening up the armory next to the generator shack for everyone to equip themselves. Even the colored folks,” he says, giving me a pointed look. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They send small spots of color down into the room below. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The platform was teeming with people dressed for the World’s Fair, a riot of bright colors at odds with the surrounding cityscape. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All the color is gone, Bran realized suddenly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A flash of pain woke him, sharp as ice, the color of slow thunder, down in the weeds that summer’s night. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She wore a simple white dress, but when she moved, the fabric shimmered with colors like oil on water. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It has happened before, many times, before color was invented, and the hope of Heaven has always been a metaphor for the achievement of this particular state of grace. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I looked and smelled like a precious buncake, sweet with a good clean color. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come, you, and gaze upon the tar man! Blackly he reposes, tender face the color of soot, withered limbs like veins of coal, feet lumps of driftwood hung with shriveled grapes!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She was wearing boots which looked like army boots and there were 5 bracelets made out of a silver- colored metal on her wrist and they made a jangling noise. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He is drenched from the rain, but I see the unmistakable color of blood on his clothes and marks on his muddy face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The color of my skin turned back to normal. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ma liked everything on her table to be pretty, so in the wintertime she colored the butter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

All my siblings, myself included, had some sort of color confusion at one time or another, but Richie dealt with his in a unique way. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s even in a different color than the other doodles and text around it—it’s pale blue while the other doodles around it are mostly in black, with some red and purple. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now, skirting the City, there were no green curtains; the whole car could be full of colored people and everybody on a first-come first-serve basis. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The booklet is simply a list of laws stating what colored people can and cannot do, in an assortment of Southern states. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ahead there’s a scatter of flyers on the bulletin board, and the doorway to the gym is surrounded with colored streamers and twinkly white Christmas lights. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she realized that Amaranta was dressing the saints in the bedroom she pretended to show the boy the differences in the colors. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Mrs. Cameron. And, may I say, that sweater certainly complements your eye color.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Three old colored men had already been hired, but not for die road work, just to do the picking up, food bringing and other small errands. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Who could have imagined so much color that the ground disappears and we are left walking through an autumn's worth of crazy words that beneath the magic of my grandmother's hands become side dishes. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Yes, people who legitimately aren’t as qualified get picked over people who are, and yes, it’s usually people of color getting picked over white people. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But in America, my skin color did define me, at least in other people’s eyes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was nothing I had done, it was not me, but the color of my skin. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steam is still rising from the water, and I watch the colors flow through it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I take a photo of the sign for Clint’s Graveyard and upload it to Instagram in full color. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The golden pommel was smooth and rounded, its color deliberately muted; ash leaves of pale gold entwined at the hilt, and a pattern of leaves covered the scabbard. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Every number has its own color and shape. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Boys no older than I nailed together boxes out of wood scraps, painted them in bright colors, and set off for San Juan or Río Piedras, where men paid ten cents for a shoeshine. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Tall and thin, with fierce black eyes and a beak of a nose, the priest was garbed in mottled robes of green and grey and blue, the swirling colors of the Drowned God. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I tell you, you make the best colored coffee in town.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Given the color of their skins, there was never any doubt over their roles in either game, Ethel’s habit of rubbing soot onto her face notwithstanding. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A bit of saliva colored the leaves at my feet, so I covered them with dirt. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The best that could be said for them physically was that they looked wiry in their startling sets of underwear, which were the color of moss. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was now coloring in the heart, which tickled in a way I liked. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It is the color of an unripe raspberry, and it weighs about as much as a pair of blue jeans. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They think he’s wearing a mask because they’ve never seen someone with his color skin before. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Lanterns swung from iron chains above the doors of inns and pleasure houses, but within the gates, they were made of colored glass, not parchment. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the other satisfied every cherished idea of a fairy: tall and graceful, with huge eyes, skin as unblemished as satin, lips as red as pomegranate seeds, and cheeks the color of early sunset. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are so many pairs of eyes, all different shapes and colors. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It has three rings in three different colors, green, yellow, and red, so it’s easier to tell where the bullets hit. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“No, sir. He’s colored. But why are you asking me all this?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its shrunken body bore an uncanny resemblance to the creatures that had haunted my dreams, as did the color of its flesh, which was like something that had been spit-roasted over a flame. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Grandpa didn’t have electricity or running water and didn’t believe in hiring colored help. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He stood in front of the Bayside Press building in the same burgundy-and-silver-blue outfit James had described him wearing at the book carnival: top hat, suit, and walking stick all in Bayside Press colors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On her shoulder, pale Viserion flapped wings the color of cream, stirring the air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But in a country like South Africa, it was almost impossible for a man of my birth and color to fulfill both of those obligations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all wanted different colors and decals, and it was impossible to get them to sit still long enough for the polish to dry. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

She wore a low-cut gown of deep green velvet that brought out the color of her eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Whereas color is an adjunct element to graphics and sometimes sculpture, it is indispensable to virtually all forms of painting. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In comparison to the new colors I see around people, my colored letters now seem very dim. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The kids at the back of the truck were tossing down the entirety of the truck’s load: boxes and crates of brightly colored fruit. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"I want to know what you taste like. If being born with color changes the way you feel." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t never said nothing like that. You just kindly turn out that light and I’ll make you to know that black’s a mighty pretty color.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Without the color, I don’t know how to proceed. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The entire expanse of window was filled with books arranged by color and stacked atop one another like LEGOs to create the Bayside Press symbol. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I’m happy to see one of them is Nessie, the colored girl who braided my hair and brought me water the day I was whipped. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Another time, I mix my palette with peachy tones and I’m reminded of the color in her room. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The colored folks ain’t all that different from the white working-class folks, since Tuesday is payday for the cowpokes as well and they're all up in the saloon spending what little they got. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They take on a dark, metallic green color, looking as if they will burst like a water balloon. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember that contest, but I don’t remember hearing nothing ’bout no colored person winning it.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all the colors you could think of, black, white and brown, but the fire made everyone look like they were different shades of orange. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Together, the Witchlings walked past the brightly colored flowers and enormous willow trees and to the Uncle’s door. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

So, since my mom didn’t want to move to a black area and couldn’t afford to move to a white area, she decided to move to a colored area. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was like looking at a photo through a filter that amped up the colors. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I could mention the formal values, the careful use of color. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The secular calendar whirled like a carnival wheel and offered carnival prizes—a fat Santa instead of the infant God; colored eggs and chocolate bunnies instead of the death and resurrection of Christ. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had visited museums and seen paintings filled with all the colors he could now recognize and name. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The hammering begins and the familiar mottled gray bursts of color appear about a foot away from my face. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The world slowly began to lose light and color. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A row of hearts and stars framed my name and address, each perfectly drawn in different colors—a rainbow of blue, red, yellow, green, and orange. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Some tar had oozed down the fenders, marring the blue color, and later, after Master went indoors, Ugwu carefully wiped it off, until the black glob covered only the headlights. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sharp edges blur, the ache goes out of it, the colors melt together, and from the many separated lines a solid gray emerges. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the blaze of their colors made this room look, not exactly cheerful, but at any rate rich and majestic after all the dust and emptiness of the others. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

"You got to be thinking ahead, Alfred. World is changing, opening up for colored people." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Indeed. Purple is the color of royalty,” Albert tells Shay. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her straight hair was the color of rotting straw. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When the brush meets the damp paper, pink petals of color unfurl like morning flowers. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

As she came nearer he saw that her right arm was in a sling, not noticeable at a distance because it was of the same color as her overalls. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That night she brought him a coloring book the children had thrown away in the Big House. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I submit, then, that the racial tensions that menace Americans today have little to do with real antipathy—on the contrary, indeed—and are involved only symbolically with color. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I know certain colors are harder for me to see, and I wonder how much more magical this looks to Feathers and Rubio. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

How a girl like that might know about how a color could show up along with a feeling. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The wood was a dark charcoal color with a black grain, heavy as a sheet of iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was used, the color of nickels, and there was a small stain on the passenger seat that Linda guessed was melted lipstick. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Night after night, she pulled her gray-streaked hair back into a tight bun at her neck and dressed in her gray silk dress with a white lace color. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even though Miss Ella Pearl, Miss Trotter’s mother, was as colored as my mother, she told the census taker to write ‘Indian.’ Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She’s a short round ball of a woman with a sturdy build and hair the color of plumbing pipes. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver was a colored boy who tipped his cap in a jaunty fashion. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“June—you wouldn’t catch her keeping house for white people. She went to work at a colored funeral home, dressing the bodies and doing their hair.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A colored man wearing a butler’s uniform answered the door. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stuart in a christening gown, held by a colored woman in white uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In chess tournaments, contestants are not only assigned opponents, they’re also given, for each round, a color: black or white. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But I can’t just ignore the coloring. If I wait a span or two, some young lord will pay just for the snappy look of him.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And colored people didn’t just get promoted to white. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but it’s boring. This has lots more color and photos, fashion and cute boys.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her face had a little color in it now, but, although he spoke three fairy languages, he understood not a word of what she finally said in her faint tinkling voice. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Wha happen up there?” colored man in front a me call to the driver. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Though the trees are changing colors, flowers are still in bloom, and there are bees everywhere. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I remember how one day she showed up with bright pink tresses studded with blinking colored lights shaped like mice. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His color deepened at the rude suggestion that I could be like his wife. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly a much better set of options could be provided to African Americans—and poor people of all colors—today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“But those frames come with pictures of white people, and the outside child is not white. She’s colored.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Something about their color and their long shape recalled an incident in Patria’s house last fall. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had a dress just that color once,” she said slowly. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I try to say that purple is actually my favorite color but too many of the girls are yelling at me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five faces in a row uniformly drained of color and went blank with a kind of stunned dread. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She seemed partial to the color green, because she was covered in it from her wax-print dress to the glittering jade beads clacking at the ends of her box braids. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The market is overflowing with a dizzying array of goods—rows of glittery bangles in every color imaginable, bolts of silky fabric, and mounds of beaded slippers, hair accessories, and evening bags. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

My heart racing, I drive fast on the paved town roads, heading for the colored part of town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Burst and swirl and fly around, their wings shining with all the colors of the universe. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The man looked like someone you’d see on the street downtown, except instead of bills and coins in the instrument case, people had dropped little vials of colored powders and liquids. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Something,” she continues, “like telling her parents that she sees colors all the time. Colors that no one else, including her brother and sister, can see.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And the only colors you could see were orange and black and mixtures of orange and black. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing I needed was colored gangsters up against me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Even in Medallion there was a victorious swagger in the legs of white men and a dull-eyed excitement in the eyes of colored veterans. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nonracial explanations and excuses for the systematic mass incarceration of people of color are plentiful. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was the color of soot, and seemed as big as me to my child eyes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Chris wanted to be orange because it was the only color that was a food. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was something about the straight line of the taller woman’s back, the color of the cap on her dark head. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They take on form and color, and the voice is as familiar and true as if my brother is standing in front of me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the science report, laser-printed in four colors, with a clear plastic binder. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only been a few weeks since Katherine went from being just another colored girl at Miss Preston’s to a white lady, and the change in her is obvious as we eat. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Finally, she married Gabe Ugliano, who was nice the first thirty seconds we knew him, then showed his true colors as a world-class jerk. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The yellow still wasn't a color that looked good on me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I heard one of the generals say that he never saw no unit, white or colored, fight as fierce as we did. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

First time in my life I saw the white folks and the colored folks together in a crowd. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never seen colored men hold guns. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was something sad about her—sitting so still with her legs against her chest, the moonlight coloring her hair silver. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His shoulders were broad, his hair had held its dark color, his square-jawed, confident face retained a healthy-hued youthfulness, and his teeth, unstained and strong enough to shatter walnuts, were still intact. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The color of House Hyacinth, the coven Seven and Poppy had dreamed of being placed into for, oh, just about all their lives. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The colors are beautiful and make my eyes ache. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A golden light colors the snow as the door opens. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Triangular color blocks sit on tiered trays like a series of sugary petit-cakes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She could be in Seventeen if they had colored people in that magazine. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I color myself lucky that she's got her arms around me. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I know what things were like before the War between the States, and even though the years after were chaotic, at least colored folks like me were free. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At that time, a lot of colored were leaving the farms and moving to cities in the North. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turned a soft brownish color, like sand, before finally disappearing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many people, especially poor people of color, fear and experience police harassment, retaliation, and abuse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She opened her eyes, the color of the summer sky. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I know what the word means, Dad. But I’m not imagining things. My colors are as real as this house.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s your bike. You should get to pick whatever colors you want.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The leaves were deep green while growing, and dried the color of milk chocolate with fine traces of red. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Light purple paint, almost exactly the color of... Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The color was uneven, but made a nice gray watercolor. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He would have been a handsome man, with his fine dark eyes, bushy black brows, contrasting smartly with the white tie-wig he wore, except for the color and quality of his flesh. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the color of bruised flesh and storm-dark seas, the bleak and hopeless blue of a dead girl’s eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“That’s the same color,” she said, as if she had discovered something important. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The finale was supposed to be a couple of hundred-foot-tall Spartan warriors who would crackle to life above the ocean, fight a batde, then explode into a million colors. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

All around the island the ocean was a deep azure blue, and the colors here were so bright and crisp that Kaede had to squint. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even the concession tickets provided a splash of color—brilliant blue for the Turkish Theater, pink for the Lapland Village, and mauve for the Venetian gondolas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Within the blood itself he could perceive its separate cells, and see their colors in his consciousness, and the prisms of their molecules, and all of it was awake now, gathering power. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The kids applauded like onlookers at a fireworks display, violent slashes of color reflected in their masks. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He was brilliant red, the color of a lucky lantern, with emerald-green whiskers, horns, and a dull stone-colored ball like the moon on his head. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They passed through a bazaar in a cavernous building whose latticework ceiling was home to a thou-sand gaily colored birds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Most guys around here find ways of showing colors. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We saw a few mill people near the tracks, picking blackberries into lard buckets, and a whole family of colored people. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Farther up on the green stood a tall brown Victorian house, quiet in the sunlight, all covered with scrolls and rococo, its windows made of blue and pink and yellow and green colored glass. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer in charge shall not bury any colored persons upon ground usedfor the burial of white persons. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All around her are the foothills, a dark enormous green, the sky more a brightness than a color. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Lining the rotunda were huge glass cases filled with trophies the school had won over the years: athletics, music competitions, color guard. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The image of it blocked the alpana designs that used to dazzle her mind with color. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

She shows me pictures of his girlfriend, Arabel, who likes the color pink and carnations and who said she was going to be his wife. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shelves were stuffed with books of all sizes, shapes, and colors. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, at least she showed you her true colors,” Hannah was saying. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I love you in this color,” she said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“He could be camped five feet from our walls with a hundred thousand men,” said an archer wearing Cerwyn colors. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And this one had found a way of making chocolate out of sugar, chemicals, brown coloring and vegetable oil. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Constructive interventions would have been good not only for African Americans trapped in ghettos, but also for blue-collar workers of all colors, many of whom were suffering too, if less severely. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Men everywhere, of every color, stripped to the waist, labored in the sun. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

There were angry blotches of color in her cheeks, and her hands were balled into fists; she was trembling with fury. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Sherman’s doubts about Burnham’s character did not color his respect for his skill as an architect. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The feathers shone chestnut color and copper color. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I drop a metal rod, the room swirls into a kaleidoscope of colors, and then—darkness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Any authors of color on your reading list?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Like all colored people, I had learned that from a young age. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Intricately wrought flowers in every color cast dancing rainbows into the mansion. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Most have five strands and come in two colors. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A vast, empty desert stretched out before me, all under a night sky filled with wild splashes of color. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“The white fireball engulfed the tower, and expanding rapidly, changing color, it rushed upwards.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

To think I know the color blue his eyes are from a black-and-white photograph. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were flecked with so many colors Jason could’ve stared into them all day, studying the changing patterns, the way people watched the northern lights. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In a small Texas town, they often did n’t have colored bathrooms or fountains either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exactly the right color of the cold, smooth, frothy deep water below the Arctic Tern. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The color of that yellow cell got to me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It isn’t only color but a glowing, as though the leaves gobbled the light of the autumn sun and then released it slowly. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. My skin color didn’t determine who I was as a person. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She changes her hair color the way normal people change their underwear. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Kingsley asked, “The condition in which a person may be able to hear colors or visualize flavors when music is played is called: A. Synthesis B. Symbiosis C. Synesthesia D. Symbolism.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

His eyes were almost as pale as the rest of him, as if the color had drained out of them, but as bright as silver coins. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

‘Give me your pretty colored chalk. I promise a big crowd.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For clothing they wear only a breechcloth, like an apron, and their faces and shoulders are oiled with something that gives their skin a deep reddish color. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I've never worn any other color besides the deep pink Du Barry claims brings out the honey undertones in my brown skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Since white always moves first, having that color can provide a player with a distinct advantage in that he can make immediate headway on a preferred strategy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because I am marked by indelible color they easily suppose that I am unchanged by social mobility, that I can claim unbroken ties with my past. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still the fact was that skin color controlled most of Little Rock life. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Four different color videos, one in each corner of the screen; four different viewpoints of the camp boundaries. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

This parade of soft color traveled slowly up one side of the room and vanished in the corner of the ceiling. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“What about this one? The color will really suit you, Dimple.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The sun was too hot and it made the color of the sky too pale blue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The color scheme is cinder block and corrugated iron, gray and dark gray, punctuated by bright splashes of color. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The details of Cara’s face have also become difficult to see, the world smearing together into dull colors. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He is a very big poodle, of a color called bleu, and he is blue when he is clean. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the pavilion, the glowing flowers repeated the colors of the painted rainbow, and the white clouds above echoed the cresting waves of water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh my,” she whispers as her head slowly tilts upward and the reflected colors from the bulbs paint her face. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I’m still torn between wanting my colors back and feeling like it’s an appropriate punishment that they’re gone. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But these colors—they were as bright as the leaves and flowers in the greenhouse. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

While most of the train compartments are saturated with color, Tsukiko’s private car is almost completely neutral. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Your grampa and his friends in the White Citizens’ Council are pretty worked up over it They’re dead set on keeping the colored schools separate from the white. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Seems to me those “enlightened men” worry more about keeping the mayor happy than the plight of colored folks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The camp grew so large that the controllers staggered our schedules, so we ate by color and gender—and even then, it was still a tight squeeze fitting everyone at the tables. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They got a sliding window on the back side so colored folk can get our ice cream too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her face lost all its color, her eyes widened, she bit her lip. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He has captured the sun, given a blessing to the world, a benediction of color. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As she did, the screen changed color, and some small letters and figures appeared on it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no coloreds that I had seen and I didn’t have logger clothes on neither. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brown color is dull and ashen at the roots. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The colors he uses are flatter, more primary than the ones I usually see, but they’re still pretty close. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They say a colored person can do well going there. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Maniac loved the colors of the East End, the people colors. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were pigeons out in the square, and the houses were a yellow, sun-baked color, and I did not want to leave the café. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Norma was lighter, rust colored, and not as pale as Mami, whose skin was pink. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They remind me of the paintings Gram left in her studio, the bits of blank canvas peeking out between all the colors. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Miss Spitty had strawberry blond hair, which was definitely unfashionable, but I found it a beautiful color. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Where his are the color of a kinda-old penny, hers, though brown-spotted, are so pale he can see the blue of her veins. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I could see that Mrs. Odom’s rutabaga trick with Howard’s brother Cotton wasn’t working too good because there were lots of drawings with colored markers along the bottom of the walls. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Paul had ordered purple, white, and green flags, but some women objected, because those were the colors of the British suffragettes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At one time or another Palmer had seen every color in the crayon box on Beans’s teeth. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He handed me a protesting Bat Masterson, and I could see that his—or maybe her—eyes were in fact the same color as Lula’s. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The light flowed across the bar, scattered a thousand tiny rainbow beginnings from the colored bottles, and climbed the wall toward the sword, as if searching for one final beginning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A helpful chart from the city categorized every home as a Tudor, English, or French style and laid out the appropriate colors for architects and homeowners alike. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The color looks so pretty on you,” she said, “and the chiffon material will keep you cool.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira is the one with straight hair, a light brown color like her eyes. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The momentum presses me back against the skeleton chair, and the view out the window turns into a smear of color. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

As apartheid was coming to an end, South Africa’s elite private schools started accepting children of all colors. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The iron would split it open with a wide gash, and blood would darken the white spot and make it the color of the man’s sunburned face. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Martian, far cleverer, would say: ‘This is a fine picture. It came from the hand and the mind of a man inspired. Its idea and its color are from life. This thing is good.’ The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tenants watched him in amazement, without the foggiest idea of why anyone would stick a pin in the color blue one day and move it to the color green the next. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angles, colors, the riot of snowflakes, the din of Sid’s band—everything was soft and kind and infinitely forgiving. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

V followed the stream of visitors in chef’s hats and colored aprons, some toting cake pans under their arms, others simply fidgeting nervously. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I love baking, and dressing in loud colors, and being at school, where there are tons of kids and there’s always something going on. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

At the same time, brightly colored marbles appear, hovering over many of the isles. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The hall is filled with layers of color. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I see that in her eyes as much as I see their color. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He was cheek to cheek with her, his head under her wide-brimmed blue-green hat, which brought out the exquisite color in both of her largeish eyes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do you always have to wear black? Why don’t you try a different color, something nice, like yellow or green?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ophie was overwhelmed by all there was to look at: the finely dressed colored folks, the heavy drapes that made the space feel grand and special, the wide white screen waiting for the film. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The colors and shapes and words and pictures are so garish, so abundant, that they are mesmerizing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The first was my mother in colored pencil, in her city house kitchen and her late-forties dress. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was startling and I watched the surge and flutter of the birds as their colors flared for an instant like an unfurled oriental fan. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I paint her in a new skin tone, the color of freshly laid eggs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“We don’t see skin color,” she had said, leaning down to put a hand on his then-bony shoulder and smiling so wide that Joaquin could see her back teeth. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Oh, I know it’s still here, but the walls have been replaced by a supernova of color. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

His voice was rich and musical, with as many tones in it as there were colors in his daemon’s fur. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At midnight, I awake and paint a large canvas ignited with reds and whites, each color betraying the other. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d tested out markers and oil sticks and colored pencils and chalk and pens and pastels and watercolors. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two pitchers of water sit at either end, with brightly colored Dixie cups stacked up beside them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was a pale green curtain, die same color as my gown, that could be pulled across the table, dividing my upper and lower halves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maplewood is a diverse town, but in the classrooms, segregation was in full effect, and I was on the wrong side of the color line. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Art may be approached and appreciated for its purely visual elements: line, color, light, composition, form, and space. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The laughter reached them first—children’s laughter—and then the color. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Well, naturally he is not in my color category, but even if I were a Congolese girl I’m afraid I’d have to say thanks but no thanks on Anatole. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, “Are you using those bandanas, Mason? Did you bring one to the table? Got a favorite color? Because I can get you some more. And remember the other items we talked about?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

It never escaped his memory that neither black nor white was a color, and he never used verbal when he meant oral. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When I grew older, I used kira-kira to describe everything I liked: the beautiful blue sky, puppies, kittens, butterflies, colored Kleenex. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very old, terrific record that this colored girl singer, Estelle Fletcher, made about twenty years ago. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The words in my head are in color again, and I didn’t even notice it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I can tell from the way the sky starts to turn colors like a kaleidoscope. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

White folks and colored, too, stood in clumps staring at her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I dashed over to examine the painting, marveling at the colors and shapes. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It did not help to hear my mother carp about the colors. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two or three were missing, and not a single one approached anything close to the color white. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But to the left of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous picture, another painting glows with rich colors. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her nails are the same purple color as Jude’s. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She pulled out a tube of lipstick and, with a weak hand, applied the melted color to her lips. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The bright blue color brought out the rosiness of her skin. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lance was striped in the same colors, and his shield bore the grape cluster sigil of his House. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Calder’s mom, Yvette Pillay, had short hair the color of an apricot and a jingly laugh that made other people laugh even when they didn’t know why. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

But cut open too early or after two days, nothing but colored watery material comes flowing out.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If she drew this feeling, it would be softly flowing waves the color of a delicate pink ballet slipper. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were a deep brown, almost the color of the earth in the garden bed. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I like the colors next to each other and wonder what kind of impossible things I can draw about ice cream. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“She has your face, but it’s in black and white. Maybe her hair is a different color.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She points to the stack of curly “papyrus,” markers, and colored pencils near her desk and hands us a copy of the codes to use like a Rosetta stone. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“How can he be colored and not have rhythm?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Some nineteenth-century English scientists misused Darwin’s ideas to peddle the notion that the Irish and people of color descended from apes. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“On the sleeves it shows very plainly where the stars have been cut away. The cloth is a different color.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“South Carolina has a much more enlightened attitude toward colored advancement than the rest of the south. You’ll be safe here until we can arrange the next leg of your trip. It might take time.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The cloudless sky turned a deep purple, the color of an old bruise, then faded to black. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The picture was motel-fuzzy, and the colors swam across the screen. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She wanted every child to be “made to feel wanted and respected as a human being, no matter what his race, creed or color.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

First we sorted the dogs; that was fairly easy, for we could remember the size and color of most of them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old men blew colored smoke through long painted flutes, etching the air with soundless music. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But there was so much vibrant color spread about that it overpowered the grimness of that lamp. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had turned extremely pale, a bluish color. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Being a Delsprite means red will be one of my favorite colors, second to purple. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was tall and curvy and had hair that looked like fresh honey and always, always, always had her nails painted some wild color. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I had no urge to color my hair or trash my sneakers. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Groups moved in color patterns across the yard, up the stairs, down the hall. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They always hired colored kids to help out for the summer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“She. The old woman who makened the colors. She said there be blue yonder.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got to wear my favorite dress, which is made from the softest velvet the color of cranberries. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He practiced several sentences: “My name is Matt. I live here. Do you want to color pictures?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll be right up there in the tree, same color, same everything. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In South Africa, everyone knows that colored gangsters are the most ruthless, the most savage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Silas produced a grey sweater the color of Bod’s winding sheet, a pair of jeans, underwear, and shoes—pale green sneakers. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Her dress was void black, mixed with the colors of a space nebula, as if galaxies were being born in her bodice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s peach, the same color as my dress, and so sweet, it makes me sick, but I keep shoveling it into my mouth anyway. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Alice thought, No. It wasn’t the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn’t the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets full of themselves. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down at Pier 57, the Great Wheel pinwheels and flashes through brilliant color patterns: electric violets, neon greens, siren reds. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I went through a demented phase when I thought that roses should cover everything and pink was a great color. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They are every shape and color but they still share this talk, and this is the other tongue they have learned, this must be the special language. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

African Americans lived in racially segregated ghettos isolated by railroad tracks within small towns or in "colored sections" in the country. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The golden color fades into silver halfway to the bottom. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron pot. How to bloom the colors. How to bleed.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In my mother’s house the kitchen was dark and narrow, and nothing you cooked there ever had any taste or color.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They carry not only instructions about eye color, height, nose shape, enzyme production, microphage resistance, but a story, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She would fix her hair, cover it with a flimsy net, put on a clean white cannery worker’s dress, and stick a brightly colored handkerchief in the lapel pocket. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The list a them reasons why white folk and colored folk can’t be sharing a seat. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Through a break in the clouds of Titan, you might glimpse Saturn and its rings, their pale yellow color diffused by the intervening atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We bought our children balloons and colored ribbons, purchased sweetmeats by the kilo, paid calls in taxis to relatives we had not seen throughout the year. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sky became quite gray and, along with it, the whole countryside seemed to lose its color and assume the same monotonous tone. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The air was a strange, silvery color, and the gray-green trees melted into the sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rainbow colors shimmered through it, though there was no light in the room except for the moon outside. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But Gobi Aloo Sag is yellow, so I put red food coloring into it before I eat it. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had color and shape and even a scent if you knew to seek it out. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I waited in the colored section, but it wouldn’t matter if I was allowed to sit on the white benches. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was four years old my parents made me practice writing my name, numbers, and made me memorize the colors. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There are lights hanging from the ceiling, and ornaments in all different styles and colors. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Girls wear their hair colored, curled, laid, and slayed. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Black, he said, was the color of carbon, the element that was present in all life. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could speak perfect English, and I barely spoke Afrikaans, the language colored people were supposed to speak. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My board has pictures of family and friends, and in between the spaces, holding it together, are tiny houses in all shapes and colors, cut out from magazines. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of pictures, drawings of the things that made Ivy happy, self-portraits, all the colors of her world, all the things that made her feel like her. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He’s about Sammy’s height but with a permanent suntan, as the American kids sometimes describe our color of skin. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Clouds shielded the sun, colors were overshot with gray. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a contractor paint the rooms the colors of sweet peas and corn on the cob. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was technically illegal to bury anyone on company property, but the colored people had a cemetery somewhere up Snakeroot Hollow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Is your hair turning the color of the old gray goat? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The light of the half-moon and stars tinged the sands blue, purple, and silver instead of the daylight colors of orange, red, and white. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They can bind colored chemicals and become pigments in the eye, or in a flower. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He flipped through the pages, admiring Javier’s use of color, the way he seemed to know how to arrange scenes in all those square and rectangular frames. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was good in the graveyard, the same color as stone and as shadows. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The pumice rock minefield was dotted with stubborn weeds armed with sharp thistles, which poked up through the cheap layer of thin black plastic under the brick- colored lava bits. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They decided everything without her, what the flowers would be, what the music would be, what color coffin Warren would be placed in: walnut with a blue silk lining. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Frightful awoke as the morning sun brought color to the tops of the trees. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The only color in this world comes from the sky above us, which is bright blue. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the confined space of the car the color clouds are brighter. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

No color at all, save for the neighboring trees and the grass of the surrounding fields. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The president smiled down at him from large color photos on the walls. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A younger girl with the same skin color and the same height takes her hand—Christina’s younger sister. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was yellow, the color of butter and sunshine. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They thought just 'cause we were Haitian, we didn’t bathe, we wore mismatched colors, and we did voodoo. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I colored us in with pencils—the brown of Abby’s skin, the pink of my cheeks, the dark red of my hair. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She had yellow-brown eyes and sharp cheekbones, and her lips were the color of a bruised pink rose. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I still tell myself that when he drove away that day he wasn’t saying good riddance; he was saying, Oh, Lily, you’re better off there in that house of colored women. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the windows of sari shops she pointed to a magenta Benarasi silk, and a turquoise one, and then one that was the color of marigolds. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When she played a selection from Bach, I’d point to the correct composer, then once again touch the color blue on my board. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Was there a hereditary reason for that, he wondered, or for skin color? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lawn the color of spinach splashed across the side of the road. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A large awning hangs over the entrance, orange, the color of our exiled monarchy. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but this isn’t the colored car, it’s a white car.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was curly and the color of bread crust. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Mismatched candles burn merrily on every available surface, illuminating the sleeping doves in their cages hanging amongst sweeping curtains of richly colored tapestries. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The worst way to insult a colored person was to infer that they were in some way black. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The article, which also included provocative material, caused a sensation, coloring many of the interview questions that would be fired at Bobby for years after. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Though for what, exactly, he couldn’t say, unless it was for hair the color of a young man’s name. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danny’s face mirrored his exactly—except for the hair and the color of the eyes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She colored strips of parachute silk to use as scarves, and she carried a picture of roses on her Yak’s instrument panel. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t see any white folks, just all kinds of colored people, some rushing past bringing books in, some bringing books out, some working at the front desk. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

His face was the color of clouded silver. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Other than the brand-new color television they bought, I don't pay attention to my parents' decorating choices. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a week before the race laws went into effect and violence against the colored population was on the rise in rehearsal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I bet he knew her favorite color, what she ate for afternoon snacks, everything she loved. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But much more extraordinary than his color is his size. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

A girl her age might let her hair grow long, add inches to her height, see her chest fill out, but she could not change the color of her eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her dæmon had changed again, and become a huge, brightly colored butterfly, which fluttered into the fridge briefly and out again at once to settle on her shoulder. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was under the impression she still had her youthful color. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Welcome, Isaiah,” Ms. Marlee says when I come into her classroom, which looks more like a cozy bedroom, with chairs in every color you can think of. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The large-eyed beauty of the women, the singing, the flowers, the bright colors, and the crying, were what he needed now. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the makeshift camp, the guerrillas set up their tents and open cans of pinto beans and pressed meat the color of dung. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced over at the colored girls again. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Spencer has a color printer, so when Dad comes by the next day, he brings over some copies. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The ice, they said, but really because it was colored people calling. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, now that color has refastened itself to everything, it’s supernaturally amazing to be in the trees. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The farm and the adjacent ones operated by colored interests were too big, too prosperous. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If genes were discrete particles specifying one trait, then how could this property be reconciled with the occurrence of human characteristics, say, height or skin color, in continuous curves? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then she held out a pack of brand-new colored pencils. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then she imagined the trees as they would soon look in the full blaze of autumn color—and then afterward, in winter, as a field of bare-branched giants standing on a blanket of white. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Her adrenaline gives her face a twinge of color, her cheeks a bright, exhilarated pink. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The room spun, colors morphing into each other, churning faster and faster. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They came in all colors, black, brown, electric yellow, vivid red. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

New Guineans told me similarly about dozens of rock types in their environment and each type’s hardness, color, behavior when struck or flaked, and uses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She saw Taisin’s face, drained of color; her dark, anxious eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Martin’s final bad omen happened that morning: A mob strung up a husband and wife who hid two colored boys in their barn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In Puritan England, about 300 years ago, it was against the law to wear the color red. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their colors and patterns make me wonder why I haven’t been drawing butterflies. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then, when they realize that their reps and tattoos and colors don’t keep them out of jail, they chill and their colors fade. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I was a teenager, anytime I was profiled by cops or security guards, it usually wasn’t because I was black but because I looked colored. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Royal was the man who’d spied her in town; his partner was Red, owing to the rusty color of his curly hair. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Times like this, I sure wish we had a color television so I could get the full effect of her outfit. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This cane Held business appears at first to have just two colors: a too-big blue sky, and a too-much green cane, growing like giant grass. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at slides, planaria worms in section with their triangular heads and cross- eyes, bacteria colored with vivid dyes, hot pinks, violent purples, radiant blues. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nowadays, for a nickel, I could find sanctuary in a colored rest room. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yankee women do work like that, and colored women, and tenant farmers’ wives and daughters. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It contains some yellow and red, from the Amity, and some gray, from the Abnegation, colors I rarely see side by side. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Flames and rods and tubes and circles, not to say ordinary bulbous bulbs of every size and wattage and color, dangled like fruit from an ecstatic entanglement of wire vines. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had had two years of color, choler, and passion in Karhide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The card said something pretty simple: “To be spent on printing Punk Rocky in color next time.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Brittle, brightly colored leaves arranged in a forest-floor collage: This is a book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She puts me in a shirt and pants the color of a blue sky. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her jumper was an oddly cheerful color, bright teal. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

His eyes, which were pale brown in color, and not at all large, were slightly crossed—the left eye more than the right. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The small revolver Vic has smuggled in for him—just in case—is wrapped snugly in an extra shirt, a dark colored shirt, and a dark colored pair of pants for escaping at night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“What’s the shape of a fried egg? How would you color the fat and lean of a strip of bacon?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked down and said, “There aren’t any colored parts in this play. Don’t you know that?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The dress reached from my throat to my feet and I did not like it, either the color of it or the way it scratched. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the town walls, parchment lanterns had been lit above the stalls, throwing pools of colored light upon the cobbled path. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sky was the early morning color of autumn: Jemez turquoise, edged with thin quartz clouds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They met again on Sunday on route 6 away from the colored part of town. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only half of the colored residents worked on Saturdays, so Friday night was busy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Another colored girl, younger, washes dishes at the sink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell me Sheriff Smith never said nothing to you about the trial they’re fixing to have up in Sumner? You know, ’bout that colored boy that got himself kidnapped and killed?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He knew he was looking down a corridor painted in his death colors. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You said he talks like a colored man.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

On either side of the chest were shelves of jars, some with powders, some with liquids of different colors. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He stood on the edge of the rimrock and looked down below: the canyons and valleys were thick powdery black; their variations of height and depth were marked by a thinner black color. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I turned it over and sure enough, there’s my baby white girl done colored herself black. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There ain't enough horses to go around, and a few of the younger men have to run with the colored folks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Different molecules and chemical elements absorb different frequencies or colors of light, sometimes in the visible and sometimes elsewhere in the spectrum. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had a chile, my massa’s chile for shure. She be as pretty as the dawn—blond hair, blue eyes, and skin the color of weak tea.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched them fly, their color a bright slash in solid green, and in this way he found the berries. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

His beard, chest-length like the others, was lighter in color too. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The interviews with people still alive then were in color. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has a single bright jewel at the center, yellow, the color of hope. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“But your eyes really do change color. Normally they’re bright green with a ring of gold around the inside—” “I got them from my mother,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It had all sorts of writings and pictures on it. Really fancy. I haven’t ever seen colors like that. And some of the paints were shiny like silver and gold.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

History ain’t one of my favorite subjects, but I ain’t ever learned any history about colored folks being physicians and directors. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

That green, it is the color of pressure. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

These colors look a little dirty, like the squares in a paint box when you forget to rinse the brush. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I scroll through the photos I took from the beginning of the day, skipping over the ones from my time before meeting Mateo and starting with my first color photo. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

That some of them had looked, as I did, like the color Osh made by mixing his rainbow of paints. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

His whole body is pressed against the window as if he’s trying to make himself a part of the landscape of colored paper loops inside. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Perfectly pressed, each petal carefully displayed on the ivory paper, their radiant colors dancing even in the weak candlelight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They’re in an assortment of colors and blink at different speeds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The last, the under, page of the four-year-old letter was stained a sort of off-cordovan color, and it was torn in two places along the folds. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

We’d never seen colored people eating with them, and here was our mother eating with chopsticks like the Chinese men that I had read about who worked on the railroads. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

With no obvious provocation, he leaped down to the floor and bounced right out of the building like a bright- colored, fur-covered soccer ball. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The bath is like a baptism, and if black is the color of mourning, then white is the color of rebirth and new beginnings. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

None showed signs of disease — only the erratic movements of the dying and a strange deep wine color of the gills. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Apartheid said that the only reason colored people couldn’t have first-class status was because black people might use coloredness to sneak past the gates to enjoy the benefits of whiteness. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Their only respect was for what they would have described as “good Christian colored women.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feel free to use the colored pencils or pastels too, he says. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet he notices that some color has risen to her cheeks, whether from the wine or from self-consciousness he doesn’t know. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the train, the Hudson shimmered, and the trees were the redbrown colors of fall. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet there was something in his eyes, strikingly blue—the color of the waters of the southern countries—and the way they contrasted with his raven-black hair that made her pause. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It had a color snapshot of her in a Tangerine High School uniform. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vickers Park was in the middle of Vista Heights, the oldest colored neighborhood of town. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some were men and boys, but most were women and girls, their wraps still in beautiful colors, undone and spread along the ground like butterfly wings. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

That color of blue filled Pong's mind as he put his head down and started walking south. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Purple is my favorite color, Ivy. Don’t you think it’s a sign? Maybe I should do a reading for myself.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. Who are you? How does a colored guy know Tsonga? Where are you from?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s the color the sun makes when it rises and sets. For two seconds. You can see it best in the mountains.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t just its color or size that struck him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was ironic, but liberals believed in the South’s racial Manichaeanism almost as completely as Jesse Helms—they just aligned themselves with the folks on the darker side of the color line. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She could see the hollow in the huntress’s throat, now, where the collar of her shirt was open; her skin was colored gold in the candlelight. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Levy, who considered each other the only ungratifying objects in the home, sat before their television set watching the colors merge together 011 the screen. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought it might be interesting to have a conservatory, but of course it necessitated a lack of color,” he says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Communications answered that T. S. Eliot was not a new code or the colors of the day. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Like the two women he’d encountered before, most wore plain brown tunics, and some had even accentuated their attire with brightly colored leaves woven into their kinky white hair. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

So the task of building a new society—with the many opportunities it embodied—fell to the coloreds as well. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The fact that their own skin color was proof that it had happened in their own families was no deterrent to their bile. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is a scandal when the public learns they have broken the rules, but no rules need be broken for the systematic mass incarceration of people of color to proceed unabated. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I used an ice cream scoop to drop small amounts of each color batter into each cupcake tin, and then we used toothpicks to swirl the batter around a little. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

For Christmas, Carol gives me some Friendship’s Garden bath salts and Grace gives me a coloring book of Virginia Mayo. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Miss Agnew’s first period class showed up at the bell, they found the three of us up to our elbows in color and wet fabric. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Do you know I love peanuts in my Coke, too? And blue is my favorite color?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Called the Red Planet by early astronomers, Mars is actually sandy orange in color. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it were larks and a rabbit seasoned with herbs and colored yellow with saffron. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

To sustain her being in love, she often worked at herself in the mirror, guessing at the colors and shapes that would interest him, changing them frequently in order to hit on the right combination. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has thick brown hair so light that it’s almost blond, and his eyes are a playful blue, the same color as the virtual lagoon below him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only a few shades separated their skin color. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Did she mean that she liked colored people? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His hands had turned to paws and his skin was wet fur of the same color as the murky water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You think coloreds are better than whites, boy?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t care about anything but color, color and more brightness. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The colored man next to the professor waves at the crowd uncertainly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They also behaved as though they were genuine friends with the people of color among their ranks, sharing work and laughter. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a color television with remote-control panels built into the lamp table between the two twin beds. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never thought much about the “whites only” and “coloreds” signs posted above public facilities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He looks worse now—as if all the color has been stripped from his skin. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I heard him ask the attendant, “Where the colored rest room at?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The data collected on the colored pilgrims and their descendants over years and decades, the doctor said, will prove one of the boldest scientific enterprises in history. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“They don’t have no colored sections. I could go to any restaurant and sit wherever I wanted! “They had drinking fountains all through the city. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wrong color kid in the wrong color area, and the government could come in, strip your parents of custody, haul you off to an orphanage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The next customer comes in, and Roza shows her my clothes on purpose, going on and on about how perfectly suited they are to this woman's coloring, and makes the sale. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The late afternoon sun warmed its softly colored bricks and the small-paned windows seemed to dance in the sunshine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The energy that filled that room was palpable, and I wanted to be a part of it, to fence with other athletes of color and learn from Olympians and Olympic hopefuls alike. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She watched June’s hand color the little shards of glass she had just drawn an icy blue. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I am not a skin color or a hank of wavy hair. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Queen’s face was glowing, ageless; her eyes were the color of gold. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

For all the years he’s known Ms. Dale—and he’s known her through five different hair colors and four school years—he’s never once seen her alone. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The first batch came out pretty enough, but I realized I could’ve used a toothpick to swirl the colored batter a little so the finished cupcakes looked more tie-dyed. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Over the years it has turned a deep russet, the color of dead leaves. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The food coloring didn’t show up as brightly in the sea as it did in the store bottles, but you could definitely see it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Two more huts, painted a different color, stood side by side. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When I started seeing the colors, I knew she was good. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It’s a look and has no reference to shape or color. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bird looked like it was made out of the same colors as the flowers in front, with a rich purple body, a yellow mask, and a bright red belly. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

If my stomach was a color, I think, it would be black, like tonight, and I steady myself and begin what feels like an endless walk home. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Flecks of red that looked as though they might even be the same color as the red kayak. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Which was the same color as them, worshiped in their language and packaged in the boxes they made. Now that we take their god back to them, shouldn’t we at least repackage it?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin dry, her eyes shadowed, her spirit bleached of color. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A pale golden color and as fine as a piece of hair. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Muslim program began with recognizing that color and addiction have a distinct connection. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dragon was orange, the color of the inside of a ripe mango. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The national colors of Brazil toppled into the army, squashing a dracaena. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Tolan was the only colored boy to get golds in track!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Along the path through the park there were hundreds of flowers of different colors that excited the twins. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She followed the laughing crowd into the circle of dancers weaving their way around the crackling flames, and she let Colin spin her through unfamiliar steps, the Square a blur of color in her eyes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, a woman, was consigned to “Room 101,” and, Winston noticed, seemed to shrivel and turn a different color when she heard the words. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She was instructed to stay instead in a rooming house in town—a place “for coloreds,” she was told. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Although colorblind approaches to addressing the problems of poor people of color often seem pragmatic in the short run, in the long run they are counterproductive. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Not that Mean Lady Ming would ay for her three colored girls. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pick your favorite hair color, eye color, whatever. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Even the peonies seemed to be exploding with happiness, their vibrant colors radiating in the sun. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The whites meant to rout the entirety of colored settlers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She’s built like a brick house with mounds of blonde hair, though I’m sure she dyes it that color, because the roots are black. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I peered down the row of brightly colored shops but didn't see her. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I had never seen eyes that color, eyes the purest shade of ginger. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was stained and colored; the clouds were thickened; the mountains took on an iron taint. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave me a new school uniform, light blue, the color of sky. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, it was in color, and second, it had the poem that I gave Patrick in it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

We’d noticed that after all the other students would leave, Sylvanus and the colored girl stayed and sat on a bench looking through books. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The shadows were black without shading and the open places white without color. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Who would have thought one miserable winged rat had so many colors? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

His skin was the color of teakwood, dark and glistening like Queen Marie’s old seance table. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was fall, and the grass was getting duller, and the trees were gold and that reddish brown that looks like the color of old bricks. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Where they got off the train at Maitiand he found a buggy to carry them over to the colored town right away. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It’s like all the color has been drained from the room. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Nora was in lime green, the color all wrong for her complexion. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside had been warmth and chaos and color, but here was the crisp sharpness of a newly split block of ice. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Is it different because people can see the color of my skin, but no one can look at Sandy and see who he loves? King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

On the train back to King City from his trip to Salinas, Adam Trask was in a cloud of vague forms and sounds and colors. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were the same color as their mothers and they had the same wild eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had always been filled with people and suppers and music and toys and coloring books. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Its wing colors changed to blue and purple, then to yellow and white. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I can almost hear colors and smell images when music is played. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know what she could tell me about black, since she was probably an expert of color. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Papers and notebooks were spread over the top of it, as well as some scattered colored pencils and thin-tipped markers. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Despite the rain, the stained glass gathers enough light to fill the cathedral with color. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She loved experimenting with differing amounts of pigments and binders, seeking the clearest, most durable colors. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Thin arms not much different in color than mine. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were badges, mottoes even, stripes of color in stockings and pullovers. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Yolanda, who was still as clever as when the mother had tried to persuade her that white was a better color than pink, was not convinced. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, then, without a sound, looking like a colored shadow, the fox slipped from the hummock and was gone. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He saw Ku Klux Klan hoods, skeletons, harlequins in garish colors, painted faces. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The large, round, colored pumpkins made beautiful chairs and tables. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ombré ball gown, its color deepening from white near my throat, through palest blue to deepest indigo at my feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The figure is barely painted, all in one color, a light ecru. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The pilot had flown away, perhaps thinking I was just another native fisherman waving at an aircraft I knew that the color of my skin was very dark now. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of cafes down the way, but any colored man understood that question to be “a restaurant that will serve to colored?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth, where it was worn bald under the gate, was cracked, and hard as rock, a lifeless tan color; and the road was an aisle of brilliant velvet dust. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to work, but the mood of the book would not die; it lingered, coloring everything I saw, heard, did. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think the stories were probably true, given the color of Cade’s hair, his blue eyes, and the paleness of his skin. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Days before, Tree-ear had mapped out the best places along the river for colored clay, and now he went directly to the first spot. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She could feel the ripple of speed and the flash of color as she loped through the forest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were deep set and their copper color was clouded. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s a cute little boy, maybe a year old, with a chubby pink face and a halo of wispy soft hair the color of com silk. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re chipped now, but her nails are still painted his favorite color. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We tried on so many of the brightly colored glass bangles that the owner complained, “You are keeping my customers away. Come back when you have some money.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were painted a tasteful yellow, antique shelves filled with bolts of doth in every color lined the walls. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

To produce videos about the lives of students of color and to explain what racism feels like. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We could call ourselves Vanilla Wafers, Chocolate Chips, or Oreo Cookies for all I cared about black girls and colored girls. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously because of her attachment to the color. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Her family had been the first colored family on her block, just like us. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As I read, a rainbow of colors drifts by in my head. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Will he make me get up and move to the back of the bus behind the “coloreds” signs? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That first morning at the firm, a pleasant young white secretary, Miss Lieberman, took me aside and said, “Nelson, we have no color bar here at the law firm.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You wait there. It boards in twenty minutes. The colored car is at the back.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And then they dropped him off at the colored hospital. That’s what the nurse told me, who was standing outside. They rolled him off the truck bed and the white men drove away.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We showed the Court that these sentences are disproportionately imposed on children of color. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Henri had been painting with glue, iron rust, and colored chicken feathers but he changed and his next four paintings were done entirely with different kinds of nutshells. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shower of brilliantly colored sweets fell into Harry’s lap. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

That’s why we move our eyes when we read: we can’t pick up much information about the shape, or the color, or the structure of words unless we focus our fovea directly on them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in 1948, the year I was born, several black families had crossed the “color line” that separated white homes from black homes in the Smithfield area of Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Are dreams in color, like on TV, or black and white, like those old movies that Daddy likes to watch? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My avatar’s limbs and torso began to flow and spin like taffy, encircling Art3mis, while strange color patterns flowed and shifted across my skin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I stand there until the sky starts to turn its colors, changing colors like a kaleidoscope. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, Lily said, “Did you tell my sister that she couldn't come to your house because no colored people are allowed?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There were mirrors that reflected the viewer’s aura, and they came with little cards to tell what the colors meant. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Fourteen of us have been removed to the Plover schooner and, receiving favorable winds, set off up the river, flying no colors. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“If I were a colored woman, I should be willing to march with the other women of my race,” one Illinois suffragist said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

His left eye was going blind and was covered by a film the color and consistency of diluted milk. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The colors changed as it squirmed in dismay. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“What color is the word doctor?” he asks. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Jagged flames danced across the surface of the fog, colored a bright sodium- red. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He mixes colors and applies them to my cast as if I were a canvas. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Of course, he had always known that his skin was white, just as Du Bois was never under any illusions about the color of his skin. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He works in blocks of flat color, no impasto showing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one else in the cell knew what to make of us, the ruthless colored gangster and his menacing, Hulk-like friend. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I paint a new color on a single strand of her hair. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The wringer is two rubber rollers, the color of pale flesh, that revolve around and around, the clothes squeezing in between them, water and suds squooshing out like juice. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think of all the different colors of skin of the scientists, passengers, and Monitors boarding on the first day. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He flew on to London, and reporters of the British Broadcasting Corporation took him on an interviewing tour in Smethwick, a town near Birmingham with a large colored population. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m amazed by its brightness, its colors, its warmth. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And these flashes of blue have deepened the color of the water to sapphire. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Taisin turned away with studied casualness, trying to hide the rising color on her cheeks. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The cannon’s missile, trailing its gossamer tow line, arced high into the sky and then its parasail unfurled, red and gold, bright in the sky with Patel Global’s colors. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His color was better, and he was snoring like a barn full of plow horses. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hair color doesn’t measure age, Mother. White is just another pigment, like black and brown.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was quite tanned, and his hair, which was.almost exactly like his mother’s in color and quality, was a little sun-bleached on top. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

To relieve the monotony, some people planted small gardens or painted their doors bright colors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was started several years ago in the town of Stratford, which has an Avon River running through it, and swans of both colors. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gray as rain, you were, but your color came normal in time. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They were all waving and twiddling their wands in unison, and squares of colored paper were flying in every direction like little pink kites. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Rishi colored a little, but she couldn’t tell if that was from the pace they were keeping or her question. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The houses in the neighborhood were old but freshly painted, some in bright colors like lavender or kelly green. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Stores with brightly colored awnings lined the side opposite us, and the houses on our side got smaller as we walked. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She’s always kept tabs on all the colored help and their situations—where they live, if they’re married, how many children they have. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The underlying color was dark, almost black, but the surface was paler, as if it had been ground down or worn by crushing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She turns her attention to the tea, lifting the lid of the teapot to check its color. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I stitched the colors of the fireworks exploding into the sky on Lord Krishna’s birthday and the two of us covered with red powder at the celebration of Holi. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Light the color of washwater congealing in the dirty panes of glass. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He wears tattered clothes in different colors—a black T-shirt with a torn Abnegation jacket over it, blue jeans mended with red thread, brown boots. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

For centuries colored people were told: Blacks are monkeys. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It stood to one side of the front door, a Disco-Matic made of chrome, plastic, and colored glass. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That his best friend was a woman, an architect with a long straight weave who wore high heels and tight jeans and colored contact lenses, said something about Blaine that Ifemelu liked. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Waves, colored zigzags, a garble of sound: it’s the Montreal satellite station, being blocked. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In particular, two species of beetles in southern France, pea-sized and of metallic color, have their whole beings so adapted to the presence of the weed that they feed and reproduce only upon it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The vomit, which was an eerie blue color in the moonlight, had its own wave action, sloshing back and forth over everybody’s boots. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He noticed that even though the pants were now the color of old snow, somehow, the crease held its line. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Most of the court, Dorian included, wore masks of varying sizes, shapes, and colors—some of simple design, others elaborate and animal-shaped. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The next charge struck die angle at the boulder, at the colors, lapped around it, ran into the new line, was enfiladed, collapsed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were very difficult to see, because whatever they happened to be sitting on or near was exactly the color they happened to be. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I found Mother’s lipstick and colored my face red. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her hair, which was once the color of autumn, was still the color of autumn, except that before, she had tended it herself, whereas now she had five full-time hairdressers who managed things for her. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If she ever would have imagined the Goldengrove or grown up to paint the world full of color. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She lobs something toward me, and I grab what turns out to be a bundle of brand-new markers in rainbow colors, held together with a fat rubber band. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Embarrassed that the Inspector would see the color and consistency of her stool. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The youngest champion, you know ... to add a bit of color?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re colored? Or because you don’t... want to be friends with me?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She likes spandex, and bright and crazy patterns and colors. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Smoke was seeping through the branches in white and yellow wisps, the patch of blue sky overhead turned to the color of a storm cloud, and then the smoke billowed round him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I don't remember your outfit. Did Amma have it dyed a different color from when it was mine?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They wanted to find a country house close to New York City, but in 1943 the color line was still a barrier. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

But even today, with white students continuing to outnumber students of color on college campuses, the burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The system serves to redefine the terms of the relationship of poor people of color and their communities to mainstream, white society, ensuring their subordinate and marginal status. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The room is green and brown and yellow, Daddy’s favorite colors. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I put Dad’s IBM through its paces, showing everybody the different fonts, colors, and graphics that we could use. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hotel has provided little packets of shampoo which, upon opening, I discover is the consistency and color of hoisin sauce. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They flickered from purple to orange as if the colors were fighting for dominance. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The mayor was a careerist, a consummate professional, and he knew how the game should be run against an ethnic challenger: marginalize him, isolate him, acknowledge his passion but color it radical, name it zealotry. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around her, brief images flashed by in vivid color. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

One who had been taught to calculate her appearance and demeanor down to the plain red color of her cell-phone case. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

If you took the blue paint for the waves and added some green to make it look like puke, that would be the color of the walls. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Before the strange ship was close enough for the lookout to see her colors, the guns were cast loose and ready for action. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some small prairie towns people looked at me like they never seen a colored man before. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the colors of their hair, it was hard to tell the two of them apart. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pictures were more like road maps colored in blue and red than flesh and bones. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Pink, light green, and yellow colors glow against a soft white. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was so beautiful that I stopped near a thicket of dwarfed and wind-warped cedars and junipers, and once stopped I was caught, trapped in color and dazzled by the clarity of the light. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing a green-and-white silky shalwar kameez—the colors of the Pakistan flag—and a matching white hijab that makes her almost radiant. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Everything in this room reminded me of Clancy, from the smell to the way he had organized the books by color on the shelves. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful room, with a carpet patterned in the colors of the oasis. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A brightly colored finch landed on the windowsill and sang so sweetly, Luna thought her heart would break. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

People whose faces were two totally different colors. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They filled up and turned a pale pinkish color. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the colored crowd showed up for the sit-in trial, the police department simply stepped back and turned the German shepherds loose. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Along with the Post-Impressionists and, more recently, Op artists, color theorists have tried to set down their understanding of colors as perceptual and artistic laws equivalent to those of optical physics. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a remarkable bird, as large as a pheasant, but with feathers of all colors, garish reds and yellows and vivid blues. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

One moment the flames burned orange and yellow, filling the cavern with a ruddy glow; then all the colors faded, leaving only black and white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone was colored and I knew I was in the right car. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I became expert colored counters. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who comes up with these nail polish color names anyway?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then I was screaming, and everything was color and sound, everything was alive and good. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all a funny color from my wallet, but you could still read it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“The girl’s going blue and purple all over! Even her hair is changing color! Violet, you’re turning violet, Violet! What is happening to you!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each evening the sun colored the buildings ochre and lit the motes of dust raised by the breeze until the air itself became a soft orange veil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I did not object to being called colored, but I knew that there was something my mother was holding back. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Used to be a colored man could get shot at just walking around up there. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Scout, you probably don’t know it, but the NAACP-paid lawyers are standing around like buzzards down here waiting for things like this to happen—” “You mean colored lawyers?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was empowering to help dismantle the definitions of beauty that too often erased women of color and almost never included hijabi women. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Izzy and I had also created a mural on another wall, and had taken great care to paint my blinds with the colors of the rainbow. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Sounds have colors too,” I add, figuring there’s no use holding anything back at this point. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

We were seated around a table, Soraya and I dressed in green—the color of Islam, but also the color of spring and new beginnings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He says though most cannot see it, all people walk around in a bubble that emits a very clear color. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had avoided the services at the colored churches in town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My uncle Henry always said, “A white man enjoys his success, a colored man has to pay for it.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor did she have to slip her hand into samples of hosiery to choose just the right color. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The houses are painted in pastel colors—pink, yellow, blue, and green. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I have almost total recall, every face is there, every hill and tree and color, and sound of speech and small scenes ready to replay themselves in my memory. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in the waiting room coloring, but then the therapist called me inside. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They will ride across the rainbow bridge, across Bifrost, and the rainbow will crumble as they ride, its once-bright colors becoming shades of charcoal and of ash. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She handed me a green teddy bear—which I thought was an odd color for it—and a pink notebook. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Opening it, I pull out a cartoon drawing, the colors sad and dull. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Brightly colored figures were appearing, one by one, out of nowhere at the distant boundary of the yard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It had illustrations to show basic vocabulary—words for colors, foods, parts of the body, animals—like a child’s book of first words. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

At the end of each month, the skin color drifts away like dust caught in the wind. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was a good color of nail polish, and Margo had nice fingers, thinner and bonier than the rest of her, which was all curves and soft edges. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He and his brother Bobby Kennedy seemed to genuinely care about people of color. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, I see no virtual letters, colors, or numbers anywhere in the house. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was the biggest woman I had ever seen in my life and exactly the same color brown as my father. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You can wash the color out the same day. James will have to wait weeks for his to grow back.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, the colored people. He gave over five million dollars to colored schools.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Over the mantel was a small photograph of Baby and a colored picture of a little boy in velvet holding a ball in his hands. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When she was still a tyke, her mother had taught her to use a needle, to pull it through woven fabric and create a pattern with colored threads. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of that I was seen as a colored person who didn’t want to be colored. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’d been lulled to complacency by the color of skin and an accent that made home feel real. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Two nights ago, as soon as I crossed over the colored bridge, I was stopped by a policeman. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I had no idea what he was talking about, but whatever had hit him must have passed, because the color came back into his face. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A cool breeze carries leaves across the floor like a prism of windy-season makeup colors—marigold, chestnut, scarlet, apricot. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the colored section, we could smell the smoke and the air was thick. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, Sisi had set eight places at the dining table, with wide plates the color of caramel and matching napkins ironed into crisp triangles. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But this is what the commandant insists upon, why the Reich measures their noses, clocks their hair color. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Six canopied four-poster beds are lined up and draped with rich tapestries the color of our signature flowers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

As my father read it to us, the color drained from his face. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

ON a hot Saturday in late September, the cotton fields chopped and empty, Daddy carries a new RCA color television set into the house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Here it was a gold color and you could see fish swimming around. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mist rolled back, unveiling a second ship, its shapes blurred at the edges, its colors dimmed by fog. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

In one way or another, that was the talk that all colored fathers had with their sons. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, we had very few books of any kind in our school library, and the library downtown—the “colored” library—didn’t have many more. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Queen would walk next to me and act like she was my mother, and my mother would walk a few steps behind, like she was the maid working for the colored woman. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Christmas lights glowed in spirals of color around the porch, and all the candles were lit, even though the sun was still working its way down. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a soft hazel color, and they had seen many tears. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The color would be a murky green, he knew, but the poor light made that impossible to confirm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

True, I had heard that colored people were killed and beaten, but so far it all had seemed remote. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The color vanishes from his face and I can actually see his pupils dilate in fear. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The orange color matched, and these had the same shallow ridges running up the stalk. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He had seen the color of that light once before, but he had never been sure if it was the light or the beer he was drinking. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There in the light the colors were even more magnificent and Kira felt even more inadequate. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both agreed that American society makes it next to impossible for humans to meet in America and not be conscious of their color differences. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about changing the rose wallpaper, but then Mom would get involved and Dad would measure the walls and they would argue about paint color. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Grasshoppers buzzed out of the weeds ahead of him; they were fading to a dry yellow color, from their bright green color of spring. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dell was surprised to see that, instead of complaining, the hostile teenager actually looked enthused to employ colored pencils to fill in blank spaces. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

There was no hint of another color in his coat; it was blacker than moonless midnight. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s supposed to be a gang-violence thing, but since blue is one of our school’s colors, not being able to wear it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The color of lights goes from purple to blue. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It listed the twelve players who were invited—Bobby included—and detailed who’d play whom on which dates, and what color each player would have in each round. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This is not how I judge the drawings: I find them better or worse depending on the colors. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had to really think about how to get the colors just right, so I didn’t notice the shadow creeping up behind me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He drowsed and saw the colors of the fire, the tints of green and blue and burning yellow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He could remember her blue velvet rocker, the cracks on her knuckles, her gentle cheeks the color of dark chocolate. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They talk about face shape and skin tone, and they point out a bunch of kids who are wearing the wrong colors for their complexions. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

You can find all colors in the sky. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were the same color as the mist over the Sirens' island. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The top berth had no mattress and he used it to display the vocational and educational certificates he’d earned at Chad, the squares of colored paper arranged in orderly lines. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I want to be able to put my teeth to her neck and have my fingers touch her back and run them through the lovely, mild yellow color of her hair. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Still others wear all kinds of avatar items, virtual cat ears or antlers on their heads, enormous angel wings on their backs, hair and eyes in every color. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It has all the colors of the world. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The room becomes a swirl of colors with the queen at the very center. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His mustaches and his hair and his long brown beard were silky in the lamplight, and the colors of his plaid jacket were gay. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to think so; he tinted his pictures with sentiment, for lack of other colors. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a yellow disc in a lime-green sky, the colors of six o’clock in the evening and the time when the wolves awoke. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was curved to fit the walls—the stove, the sink, and the cupboards—and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects, and birds in bright primary colors. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Hey, I’m sorry,” I said, worried about the tinge of green coloring his face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They would dream of what it would be like to live in a country where they could forget their color and play a responsible role in the vital processes of the nation’s life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

If you treated a colored cook like you do him, she’d quit.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

No judge would even listen to a colored man. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dreamed of making it to the pros, just as long as it wasn’t the New York Jets because he didn’t like the color green. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry colored the water in her paper cup. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The rest was quite easy to read, the tall yellow letters the same color as the scrub bucket. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colors immediately and gently flow over me, energizing me, reminding me that I can still enjoy them. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She kept slapping me harder and harder, and threatened to use a belt if l couldn’t deliver the right color. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I used the Sunday funny papers because they are in color. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a normal cow except it was a weird color—bright red, like a cherry. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And the disparate literature of the colored tribes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Would it be something we could eat, a fruit of some kind? It looked like the pictures of peaches on cans, except for the color.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Constitution specifically provides that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied...on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A peculiar pocket of stillness in the middle of all that color and bustle. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Being a porter was one of the best jobs that colored folk could hope to get. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rules governing what colors a house could be painted, for example. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After all, the specter of colored rebellion, all those angry dark faces surrounding them, had stirred white settlers to leave the south. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His parents give him an Instamatic camera, a new sketchbook, colored pencils and the mechanical pen he’d asked for, and twenty dollars to spend as he wishes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All of them were wearing white uniforms, with a different colored X marked on each of their backs and a number written in black above it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And what happens if all my treatments don’t work and the spots keep growing, and more and more of the color gets sucked out of me until I have none left at all? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You are a strange color of blue,” said Spurge. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

For the same color is plain around the keystone of each arch of the Old Bridge, which soars beautifully over the river upstream from the arch. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some might have been confused about Lily, but with my tinge of color and crinkly hair, there'd be no question about me. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Did the high school change its school colors, and nobody told me? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The liquid turned the color of my first urine in the morning. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

DuShawn: And Royal's got skin the color of mocha latte, man. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was the color of wet gray aluminum and there was no indication on the translucent shield where the sun might be, so I couldn’t tell direction. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A curtain separated the colored car from the white, and only the porters and the conductor could pass through. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He reopened the Sibley Guide and looked at the color drawings of the small birds. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His round fat face was the color of curdled milk. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Eventually, though, I realized these inclinations, these compulsions, were as much a part of the body as its eye color or its voice. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Do the white people of Leeds know that colored children from downtown Birmingham are splashing around in their swimming pool? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The surface was covered in overlapping rebozos of different colors. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Benjamin Ross was described as “twenty-eight years of age, chestnut color, medium size and shrewd.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His pale cheeks bore two spots of color, and his suit jacket had a few snowflakes here and there, revealing that he was most likely returning home rather than heading out. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her high bun looks like a split peach on account of the color. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Bailey said he saw a man, a colored man, whom nobody had delivered. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the knife, Ma peels the skin away to reveal flesh that is the same warm golden color. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Based on its color and ridiculous size, it had to be a Saturniidae of some kind. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

What if the ivory color is too much of a contrast with my skin? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But Clara sensed that something strange was going on, because she could see a new color in her daughter’s aura, and she felt sure that she knew why. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cross Street was paved, lined with small pretty white houses and many colored shutters. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Turner’s arms felt strong against the long, smooth swells, so low they were not breaking, the sea the color of the inside of a mussel shell. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The pictures of sweet peas were in color. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed her long feet, the color of ivory, peppered with insect bites. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Smiling, he takes the one the color of heart’s blood. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The colored girl wore a dress made of calico, old-fashioned and ugly. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

His eyes are dark brown, almost the same color as Christina’s skin. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They look up, and see a blur of color and affrighted movement as a flock of birds takes flight, disturbing the leaves. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

His gorgeous pink rag of a suit made a bright spot of color against the white steps and I thought of the night when I first came to his ancestral home three months before. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Bloodstains and tiny bits of gray matter from Lincoln’s brain oozed on to the cream-colored silk fabric, spreading and adding color to the frock’s bright and festive red, yellow, green, and blue floral pattern. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fear had darkened Jaja’s eyes to the color of coal tar, but he looked Papa in the face now. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

For his heart was heavily beating, His heart was pounding hard, And his ugly chota features, Were colored the color of lard. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A picture window faced the street, where other houses—identical except for their color—sat in a line like chastised children. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The keys on Robbie's piano had a subtle unevenness of color and shape, places where bits of the ivory had broken off over time, leaving them looking like a set of bad teeth. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You see what a dull place the world would be without color?” he said, bowing until his chin almost touched the ground. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That is correct, pixie. I am the color blue. You may enter.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Mike Douglas Show wasn’t the only place to find colored people on television. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so did just about everybody who lived in Cold Sassy, white and colored. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Or when he asks over and over even after you say white, "What color was Napoleon's white horse?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Inside, the house was all color and brightness and matching sets, the kind that had furniture that was just for decoration. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’m expecting candy to fall from the piñata, but no, it’s something light, like snow, except all different colors. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It’s not uncommon for a colored man and a colored woman to have a child that looks nothing like either parent. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A colored woman in a white uniform nods to us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then she opened the basket, and she and Akira stared at the colors. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It had bright fluorescent lights—that didn’t flicker or change color, I noticed immediately the first time I walked in—and a trained, professional library staff. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The stores are piled on top of each other, like gift boxes in all the colors of the rainbow. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, what color do you think the sky is right now?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Spring turned into summer and the grass in the garden changed into a ruddy gold color. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally am able to push the thudding to the back of my head, I’m bowled over by the colors and smells and unadulterated joy around me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Or would they split up, the mother taking the colored child to live in the ghetto while the father stayed white to make a living to support them? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When his inspiring dissertation was finished, he gave the men the colors of the day still one more time, stressed the angle of approach and reviewed the weather conditions again. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As a policy, it is blind to those who are beyond its reach, the colored faces at the bottom of the well. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

What difference would it make if she had the colored paper, or the shoes? The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Harry saw the edge of Snape’s sallow face turn a nasty brick color, the vein in his temple pulsing more rapidly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They claim all colors, all activities, all virtues, and all flaws as their own. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was emptier than the other, holding a collection of almost two dozen tomes that matched in size and color. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

As you climbed the stairs around and around, the outer windows would shine colored light through their stained glass. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And the chicks were beautiful—even more beautiful than the eggs when we boiled them in onion peels and herbs to color them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Like a color you see, the color of a sound can be bright and bold or deep and rich. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was the pale one, its scales the color of butter cream, veined with whorls of gold and bronze, and Dany could feel the heat of it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The pitted iron hardware deep lilac in color, smeltered in some bloomery in Cadiz or Bristol and beaten out on a blackened anvil, good to last three hundred years against the sea. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was a metal container of thick-looking hair grease and lipstick the color of wine. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The sound spilled out of him, uncontrolled, and he looked down at the clear blue pool and thought, blithely, that perhaps that shade of blue was also the color of hope. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they scuttled along open turf, colored like a tapestry meadow with self-heal, centaury and tormentil. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told her that color was wrong. Tangerine.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When Selena had rung her apartment bell, the girls were admitted—or rather, the door was drawn in and left ajar—by a colored maid with whom Selena didn’t seem to be on speaking terms. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

But I don’t remember anything changing with my colors. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

You were as dazzled by the rainbow of color as I was. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some books were sold like this, with uncolored prints, while others were colored by hand. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Why hadn’t Carey referred to them by skin color and called them the “vilest”? “Is it a greater crime,” Jones and Allen asked, “for a black to pilfer, than for a white to privateer?” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Now, as one of God’s servants, I could provide spiritual and tangible comfort to those who needed it, without regard to color or religion. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She survived the shock of her first elevator ride and stepped into a long corridor lined with chairs, all of which were full of colored men and women awaiting examinations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Just a big Saracen wearing the king’s colors, wandering around France? You two go hide in nice, safe houses. I’ll wait until they find me and set me on fire.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She stepped off the elevator wearing a peach- colored pantsuit. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She could see that the strange girl's house had been painted the color of the shrimp curry that her mother made. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Felicia is the only person I’ve known who didn’t see color. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I studied the rules of interacting in the white world as a person of color. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The very idea of a color broadcast was so implausible that Alvarez secreted a small magnet in his pocket to verify that the picture was actually produced by electrons striking a phosphor screen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Inside the box were at least a dozen colored pencils—red, green, blue, yellow, purple, orange. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The horse was barded in bronze- colored trappings dyed to match the rider's cloak and emblazoned with the burning tree. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Scraps of paper, driver’s licenses, receipts, grocery lists, drawings in crayon and colored pencil, school pictures. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Who else could make the colors of the aurora borealis rise off my skin where he strokes my forearm? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those ladies are the creme de la creme of Baltimore society, and their brightly colored dresses are the height of fashion. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn acted as den mother, rounding us up every time one of us strayed to get a closer look at a stall of brightly colored pinwheels or steaming boiled candy. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There are a few colored folks mixed in with the group, but they mostly look white, scarily nondescript and similar in that way shamblers get when they’ve been not-dead for a while. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The color of the bricks is old, yet fresh and clear. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon, even though we was white and colored, we got to talking like we was just people. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rode the trolley with her mother sullenly, her eyes hooded as she watched the crying girl ghost next to the chatty old colored woman. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There were colored lights: red and green and yellow, twinkling from a tree which was, oddly, inside the room. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Without regard to creed, color, birthplace, occupation, or social conditions. My aim is to do equal and exact justice among them all.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I vividly remembered the flat black color of his eyes the last time he’d glared at me — the color was striking against the background of his pale skin and his auburn hair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

As he pushed his cart down the narrow street, lively children dressed in gay colors flew toward him like a festival of silk kites. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She chose a variety of yarns in colors that reminded her of autumn leaves: warm reds and blazing oranges and golden yellows. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I got skin the color of night, and I’m proud of it.. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s pink and purple, your favorite colors, and has a heart charm on it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The old woman led the boy to a room at the back of her house; it was separated from her living room by a curtain of colored beads. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mix of shapes and colors, and a harsh, angry voice. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

There was something richly appealing in her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the gold highlights in the strawberry hair. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen colored people are gathered in the front yard of the house, holding trays and bags. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I love all the color! And everyone’s costumes are just amazing.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Soon the brilliant white bonnets were as thick as grass, driving every other color from the landscape. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, because there were no longer any eyes to perceive it, the color was gone, and the fifth April had become, like her four older sisters, a time of grief and desolation. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came home and our troop train got to the southern states, I had to leave and switch to the colored cars. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a chilly evening last autumn, the powerful men of North Carolina convened to solve the colored question. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I saw five different colors in all—green, blue, yellow, orange, and red. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The four officers in the Amadou Diallo case had their judgment derailed by the color of Diallo’s skin and the lack of white space and the physiologically disruptive trajectory of those seven seconds. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Behind him, the trees along the street were in full bloom, bursting with the colors of spring. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The little one claimed that the whole color system smacked of an assembly-line mentality. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The field after that was the color paintbrush water goes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He wanted the lagoons and canals strewn with waterfowl of all kinds and colors and traversed continually by small boats. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He was a sixteen-year-old Toyota Corolla with a paint color called Mystic Teal Mica and an engine that clanked in a steady rhythm like the beating of his immaculate metallic heart. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Japanese beetle, an insect accidentally imported into the United States, was discovered in New Jersey in 1916, when a few shiny beetles of a metallic green color were seen in a nursery near Riverton. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then he had gone on to explain how the color was because of something the pine trees released into the air. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Im not turning my back to the guards. Maybe if we get a bit of color, we’ll be bought and hauled off into Soviet slavery like the witch wants,” he said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He said, “You used to wear a sort of a coat, it was orange, and whenever I saw that particular color orange, I’d think of you. I don’t suppose you still have the coat.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A grizzled old colored man stirs a big pot of something over a fire, and a couple of small, dark-skinned boys run to and fro as the old man barks out orders. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Everybody ignored us, but we knew we were annoying them big time just by being colored and living so close. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Pastel colors are supposed to be cool, but all of us are sweating just the same. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, I separated the batch into three different bowls and mixed a little gel food coloring into each one—red, blue, and green, to match the Froot Loops. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He had bought more fancy clothes from the colored emporium, she noted with pleasure, a dark suit that fit him well. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Come with you, for what?” cried Cheroke, the color gone from his face, his eyes watering. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

His taste for colors and fabrics was impeccable. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my stitching was getting surer and my eye for color stronger. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He writes these notes in colored pencil, different colors, with exclamation marks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was also that same fiery color. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ember’s colors were all so much the same—gray buildings, gray streets, black sky; even the colors of people’s clothes were faded from long use into mud green, and rust red, and gray-blue. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy had invited a colored pastor to come talk to his Bible study group at church. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered suddenly the day Jackson had come upon some of his troops letting a valiant Yankee color sergeant withdraw after a great fight. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they were dying in the snow, feeling nothing, turning the snow to the color of raspberry sherbet. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a colored boy in South Africa, taught how to hate and how to hate himself. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Anybody who had ever wondered what color the walls were came and came to look at that little thumb of a human in a box like candy. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Meat is supposed to be gray. They doctor up the color for the ads and so forth, but there's nothing wrong with these. You'll see." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

His father was a wealthy white planter and engineer who recognized that the boy whom he had fathered with a free woman of color was unusually smart. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In one, full of thick paint and lots of color, he is wearing a grey felt hat. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Number five was bright red—a real nasty paint job, as if the color had been splashed on with buckets and fists. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Alex Williams didn’t inherit the skills to interact with authority figures from his parents and grandparents the way he inherited the color of his eyes. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful color, and smoothed and molded so prettily with their knives. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother’s face was suddenly the color of chalk. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They ran along the track looking for the coach pointed out to them by the colored porter. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined them nursing quiet plans for her wedding; her mother would think of a caterer and colors, and her father would think of a distinguished friend he could ask to be the sponsor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In subsequent chapters, we will consider how the system specifically targets people of color and then relegates them to a second-class status analogous to Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The twin set is just two sweaters, both the same color, one with buttons down the front, the other without. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her box was neat and organized—lures were sorted by type, size, and color. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

His blond hair was filthy and uncut, growing wild, and his face was covered in stubble the color of shale. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His teeth are the same bland color as the rest of him. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This tells you about matching your eye color and eye shadow—blue, green, and hazel eyes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She’s out of breath because the crowd is picking up speed in the hall, the paper chain walls blurring into a cascade of color. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

His olive complexion had turned a sickly greenish white, like the color of tree sap. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m proud of who I am. My color is inconvenient right now, but it won’t always be like this.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because he writes poems about being colored and living up North but missing the South and feeling lonely. Miss Fulton likes his poems too.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Surprised, I almost told him the sum was too much, but one of the other women came up to him just then to ask for thread the color of the fruit of a mango. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tell her about Mom’s funeral, and how the colors all melted together like on summer days, and the radio on Abuela’s doorstep addressed to me. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It took all four boxes to get this color. I spent all day in the bathroom doing my hair.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached for a plastic tray of cosmetics, the compacts clicking and bumping against each other as she dug for the right color. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I love the color—I didn’t know they come in lime green!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

At St. Jude School, the nuns had taught Mary Louise and her siblings to respect all people regardless of their skin color, and she did. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“God is the color of water. Water doesn’t have a color.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all buzzing with activity and bursting with color. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There were so many colors, they looked like jelly beans. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

People drifted away now, seeing the color return to Billy’s cheeks, seeing him smile. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly everything was gray and white—as if someone had erased all the colors of the city while they were in the shop. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m too embarrassed to watch her give Jason my picture, so I get down on my knees and hunt for colored pencils, some of which have rolled under the heater. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never had any complaints, but after Mexico I would say the train looked mighty fine even in the colored car that I rode in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same tall trees, the same brightly colored flowers, the same tropical fish tank right by the doors, where Poe and I got in trouble with Barb for throwing donut crumbs to the fish. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

His nostrils flared when he spoke, which made it really hard not to stare up his nose, and his eyes were two different colors— one brown, one blue—like an alley cat’s. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They have such varying degrees of color and shape and style. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wondered how he could paint so many different colors in one night; red, wine, yellow, and rust My dogs were trotting along in front of us. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma had provided me with a new notepad, a sharpened pencil, and color crayons, which I put on the desk. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Lining them up on her plate according to color. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It’s a rich brown color, heavy and cool in my palm. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She didn't want Maisie to see the colored pencils and clean paper. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Then I’d like to go for a walk, in a garden with some trees, watch their colors, watch the birds, take in the nature that I haven’t seen in so long now. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also a photograph of people protesting that I wanted to get a better look at They were people carrying the same kind of signs that we had colored in. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would take out the blush, but I’m pretty sure it’s not the right color for you.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually the heart in Enoch’s hand began to slow and shrink, its color fading to a blackish gray, like meat left too long in the freezer. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Hepatica then, still another color maybe besides white and pink and blue and lavender? Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

As I look back, it seems unnatural to think about the colors of the sunset and boats at a time like that. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They registered as flashes of color in her mind’s eye. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

All the orbs were the same color, but they didn't all buzz at the same pitch. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Some groups, however, had a very difficult time “melting,” particularly people of color. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He had his hair cut short, cropped above his ears, and the drawing was in pencil so you couldn’t tell what color his eyes were, but they were dark, and wide, and sad. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The old colored man paused in taking a drink of his sweet tea and set the glass aside. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Now, as he waited at a traffic light, he had to admit that the drawing, coupled with the imaginative and dedicated coloring that Quang-ha had done earlier in the afternoon, was disturbing. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then she saw all of the colored people standing up in the back of the courtroom. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The storm ended the next morning, and they emerged to find that the world’s colors had been transformed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her brown eyes are wide, and she presses her lips together so hard they change color. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

His skin was the color of polished copper, his thick mustachios bound with gold and bronze rings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

While we washed our hands at the sink, I scanned the room and spotted Liz mixing blue food coloring into a bowl of icing and Corey rolling out some red fondant—this thick, Play-Doh-like icing. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, honey, but my guess is that her reminiscing on air about Hope Springs is as genuine as her hair color.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Rachel/Rachelle, my ex-best friend: “Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called ‘Symbolism in My Books’? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She sometimes stays in the lines of her coloring books, and she usually draws stuff like flowers and stars, always in pink. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The second time, I brought some colored pencils and told him they were old ones I'd found in the back of my closet. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I discovered a lively and gregarious group of people who did not seem to pay attention to color at all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, from the far end of the platform, he heard a sound of running; and, looking up, he saw two colored boys come running down the steps. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Hilly raises her voice about three octaves higher when she talks to colored people. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Fine, but that’s the end of it. Tell that colored boy the twins are always trailing behind to pay it for you.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could only conclude that he was color blind, since he appeared totally unaware that I was a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s almost as if they’ve adopted me into their “family” ... a family that knows no color lines and only sees what lies deep within your heart. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Aureliano Segundo was so enthusiastic over the progress of his daughter that from a traveling salesman he bought a six-volume English encyclopedia with many color prints which Meme read in her spare time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In green silks the color of forest pools, in silks the color of frog and fern, they waited. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were both dressed casually, in light colors that matched the inside of the house. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The whirl of colors is unbearable, a jagged, unsettling choreography. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the world can’t see the inside of a person. What the world can see is the color.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“I do not think the Creator made a tribe such as these creatures. They have skin the color of goat’s milk.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The extra colors vanished when she opened her eyes wide and looked straight on. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

His beard is the color of a chili pepper. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now, my policy is I don’t treat colored people.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colored couldn’t play in the big leagues, but if they could I know Pete would of made it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reading glasses hung around her neck on a brightly colored, woven cord, the kind from a global imports shop. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Weighing it against the alternative, that I planned to ask a colored woman for help, saying she’d already agreed to it seemed infinitely more attractive. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The plate was elegant, light green, the same color as the avocado. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cream- colored trousers marking with a mere seam the place where the mystery curled. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Daisy was not black as he was—her skin had been like the beautiful color of dark honey. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But all of those rich colors and flavors are calling to me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

You have to pick an avocado that is darker in color, not too green. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The band closed with spirited renditions of two colored songs Cora recognized, which proved the most popular of the night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I can tell subtle differences between colors, even though they may look a little blurry,” Tess replies. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The baby doll’s white skin had been painted the color of midnight, with thick cherry-red lipstick smeared over its small mouth. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A group in Summerton, South Carolina, had sued their school board in order to get better buses and facilities for the colored students—something equal to the white students. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you two take your little colored selves outside and get those bush beans and collards in here before it gets dark,” Mama said, edging the book out from under their fingers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The nurse shooed Emmett and his brothers out of the ward to the room designated for colored blood collection, where they’d donate eight pints of blood. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My little sister was dressed like a mini me, except her dress was pink, which is still her favorite color. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t unfriendly but wasn’t warm like the talk between two coloreds. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each week, Jet magazine pointed out all the shows with colored people. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s nothing but a thousand tiny x’s to be made up in different colors of thread. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bournonite; apatite on muscovite; natural zircon in a spray of colors; dozens more minerals he cannot name. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I am colored. Do you have a problem with that?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Durham Commercial Club celebrated its hometown in 1913 with this forty-by-fifty-foot sign, its confident message spelled out in colored electric lights. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell being away for a whole week from a job that don’t mind firing colored workers is on his mind. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Her hair and the pillow were the same color, beneath the wimple of the medicated cloth she looked like an old nun praying. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were pale gray—the same color as his stubble whiskers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My skin is soft and smooth and the color reminds me of rain-drenched earth. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They’re the deep color of raw meat, and blisters are already bubbling. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Bast eyed the color of his cheeks, smelled his breath, and lightly touched his forehead, his wrist, and the hollow of his throat above his heart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

During the last war, Etienne knew artillerymen who could peer through field glasses and discern their shells’ damage by the colors thrown skyward. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"And the colored stripes tell time, which is very handy if your electric clock stopped. Each stripe burns exactly one-half hour, more or less. Twelve stripes, six hours." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She built castles with Maybeth, decorating them with bits of shell and colored stones, telling stories about princesses and giants. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh no — hang on —” A bag of sweets had spilled out of Fred’s pocket and the contents were now rolling in every direction — big, fat toffees in brightly colored wrappers. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“It looks like a color from New Zealand,” I said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Our sewing supplies were low again, and we needed thread in several colors, seam bindings, and ribbons to complete November’s orders. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bast finally turned from the bar, Chronicler’s eyes widened perceptibly, and the color drained from his already pale face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Cables snaked out of the back of the machine, leading to an audiocassette recorder, a small color television, a dot-matrix printer, and a 300-baud modem. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I like the sundown colors, red and purple. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I say nothing but I notice that his eyes are the same almond color as his skin, that they’re centuries older than his face. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were escorted across the entry hall, where a mosaic of colored glass depicted the Doom of Valyria. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From the side, I can see her complexion is the color of fabric softener, a flat milky blue. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"Glass beads from Savoy—this color is made for you." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Sabatini: He kept his front going all day long, but once his mom came home he was a horse of a different color. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pill was the size of a pinhead, and it had a pale brownish color. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it our religion, the color of our skin, the money in our pockets? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tapped his trademark walking stick, striped in Bayside Press colors, to the beat of his tune. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Up on the Wonder Dome, thirty-two brightly colored names in a balloon font popped into view as the players finished tapping them into their phones. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

At least, out on the beaches, her privation and fear are rinsed away by wind and color and light. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At first the colors of the picture had been too showy and not as they were in real life, but after a year they faded into softer, lifelike colors. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Helen Pitts said, “Love came to me, and I was not afraid to marry the man I loved because of his color.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The sleek, mouse-sized car with wire-spoked wheels and knock-off hubcaps was painted silvery gray, the right color for whizzing unnoticed through shadows. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

At last the first animal, a big black one, stepped out into the clearing of the dirt road, followed by another that was just as big but much lighter in color. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Alby pointed to the large barn in the back corner, its red paint long faded to a dull rust color. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

With just a few dabs of color in the right places she had become not only very much prettier, but, above all, far more feminine. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They were girls of fourteen, always clad in the Virgin’s colors, blue and white, having been dedicated to the Blessed Virgin at their baptism. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

One tuft was of two colors, magenta and brick red, apparently growing on the same root. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The girl stood perfectly still, all color draining from her face. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

God, would they beat her the way they beat the colored boy who used the white bathroom? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You don’t see enough colors, and I see too many! Well, I used to anyway. Now they’re gone.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Hidden in latex, molded to the shape of their earlobes, and colored to match their precise skin tones, the earpieces were completely invisible. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It looked bruised and puffy and all the wrong colors. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Abu taught me the basics of drawing, and from there I moved on to painting and sketching—I loved anything where I could be creative with colors. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She could describe him only as “quite a dark colored boy” with “curly type hair.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A marble statuette stood in one comer, and rich rugs had been hung on the walls, lending their colors to the light in the room, softening the edges of everything. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I finally got the color so perfect, the squint just right, that looking at his eyes in the picture gives me the same hijacked feeling the real ones did. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The sun was already painting colors low in the sky. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I slide my palm across the warm reddish color and try to imagine the trees they came from. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. I’ve even notified the surgeon general of Mississippi to see if he’ll endorse the idea. I pass.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One of the other colored women said, “Child, we’s so happy for you!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Dell then changed the font color on his personal files in his computer to correspond with his categorization. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Finally, we reached a wide square where the carnival was in full, rollicking swing, packed with masses of people and brightly colored tents and more activity than my eyes could take in at once. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

For a moment the world swirled in a disconcerting kaleidoscope of color, but when it settled, Holly was no longer the defeated elf she had been. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The curse that colored people carry is having no clearly defined heritage to go back to. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was a massive pile of silver and gold paper; ribbons streaked the pile with bands of deep color. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When June came the grasses headed out and turned brown, and the hills turned a brown which was not brown but a gold and saffron and red—an indescribable color. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And she had unusual skin, a lustrous pink color. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

No photo advised as to the applicant’s color—that requirement, instituted under the administration of Woodrow Wilson, was struck down as the Roosevelt administration tried to dismantle discrimination in hiring practices. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The raw silk duvet cover is a deep bronze color. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“They all look the same—they’re just clear until we put color on them with a dye. You can’t tell what color a person is from their cells.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were an odd, pale color somewhere between blue and green, their hue depending on the color of her hair ribbon. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

That there are white men out there hungry to hear about a colored person crossing whites, ready with they wooden bats, matchsticks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“The b is capitalized. You wouldn’t usually capitalize the first letter of a color.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were the true “OGs,” as the kids say, the original gangsters, and although the language, colors, and turf have changed dramatically over the last four hundred years, the theme is universal. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Those colors were scary, so she brushed them over with fuchsia starbursts and flowers with cobalt stems and a house nestled among gold-and-emerald-striped branches. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A war has been declared against poor communities of color, and the police are expected to wage it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Not the nut brown of the Summer Islanders on their swan ships, nor the red-brown of the Doth- raki horselords, nor the charcoal-and-earth color of the dusky woman’s skin, but black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They seemed to sprout overnight, like magic or science or something in between, and they filled nearly every nook and cranny of the greenhouse, bursting with color, growing fierce and bold and brave. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The colors were beginning to fade on Walnut Hill. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The color of your skin or the shape of your eyes doesn’t matter. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everything faded from gray to grayer to grayer still, so that soon there was hardly any color, and then the gray was so dark that Turner couldn’t see through it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Tally had never seen so much space painted in such putrid colors, as if the building were designed to make its occupants vaguely nauseated. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

This slavemaster white man already has ‘integrated’ us until you can hardly find among us today any more than a very few who are the black color of our foreparents! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dub often said that his boys would have won a championship as well—if there were enough colored high school teams in the state to have an actual tournament. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One of the most sinister things about apartheid was that it taught colored people that it was black people who were holding them back. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Blue is my second favorite color, and I’m almost afraid to contemplate that the lovely dress might actually be for me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I say what I know she want to hear: “I use my colored bathroom from now on. And then I go on and Clorox the white bathroom again real good.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The comic books are drawn in great detail and garishly colored, with green and purple and sulfur-yellow prevailing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I see all of them. All the colors.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes took on the colors of the sky and the cobblestones, alternately brown or blue. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ever since the televised newscast I’ve been trying not to check, but now I can’t help but see that the leg is completely colored in. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The low clouds caught the color of the burning river and roofed the sky in shades of shifting green, eerily beautiful. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Patience, son. You don’t have to lie down anymore, but you’d better stay in the back. People don’t like to see colored kids riding up front with white folks.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But even with only a few hours in the sun each day, her already brown arms gradually deepened in color. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He boards the other ship, salutes and shakes hands with a man whose hair grows on his face not on his head in the color of flames. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Since we see these colors, it is called the spectrum of visible light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have ridged, reddish-gray bark; leathery leaves with pointed lobes; stubborn, searching roots; and, if I do say so myself, the best fall color on the street. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s purple and pink. Pink’s my favorite color.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The drawing of the lots to determine who’d play what color, scheduled for noon at the Hotel Esja, attracted hundreds of journalists, officials of the ICF, and members of both the American and Russian sides. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” Seven said, suddenly embarrassed to be in her pajamas while Poppy was in her beautiful House Hyacinth colors. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Redwinged blackbirds, whose shoulders were the same color as the berries, perched on a wood bridge, really a train trestle. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He, too, was facing the sunset, his pelt the color of a new penny. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I told him that maybe, just maybe, my brain actually was more superior than his and that my colors are an advancement in evolution. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The colors of the hulls became clear: whites, reds, yellows, greens and one burnished mahogany. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are two vending machines snug against the wall, both of them illuminated in a fluorescent radiance, shiny with their rows of brightly colored snack wrappers and bottled sodas. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was creating a tube for color television. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Furlough,” he said, “what is this thing? What are all these colors? Are we in heaven?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her colors seemed to agree with the American landscape, her pumpkin hair, her apple cider skin. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Do the colors of the uniforms mean anything?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Flavius badly wants to use his own trademark purple lipstick on me but resigns himself to a pink as they begin to color my face and nails. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They kneeled over the board, and Muti threw the wooden dice and moved his colored bean with a sly smile on his face. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He hands me a blank sheet of computer paper and says, "I need your full name, your address, date of birth, social, height, weight, and eye color. And a hundred bucks." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

A colored woman in a white uniform is attached to her side. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I alter bodies, change hair colors and skin tones, give a man a songbird voice, erase agelines, and try to reassure frantic courtiers about how beautiful they are. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She complained there was no “cafe au lait”-colored construction paper for her skin, or “sixty-percent-cacao-chocolate” color for her eyes. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Blood spills over his hand and the color drains from his face. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Any colored person could tell right off she was one of them. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

How he came to command the locomotive was a story, but now was not the time for the unlikely histories of colored boys. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He writes to Theo about art, and color, and how he is trying to capture it all, to give something of himself to the world, to their family. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I breathe through gritted teeth, staring at Molly’s blood-covered face, the color deep and rich and beautiful, in a way. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She inserts two films to change my eye color. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She says, “I wish I had—known that you see colors in this way.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

All kinds of people, all sizes, all colors, all of them rushing. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Little dots of color and light move around, news and talk shows, but no cartoons. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blurred out the background and added wild swirling color to everything around us so that we’re...exactly like the couple in the painting! I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The colored man gripped his broom tighter and started sweeping yet again, but I could see the rage in his eyes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided not to bother with the food coloring this time. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Even though I was outraged, I knew he did not commit this indignity against me, but against my black flesh, my color. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone whispers, “That’s her. The girl who sees all the colors.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t want to color Eliza’s opinions about her future teammates. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I loved the tidy geometry of those fields, the pops of color that turned out to be barns, the flat county highways that ran straight to the horizon. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She kissed us all, including the Captain and Call, who turned the color of steamed crab at her touch. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made a long little flannel gown for my baby, embroidered all the way around with the colors of the rainbow. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The pearl was large, but it had a strange color. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were about the size of deer or antelopes, and similarly colored, but what made her stop still and rub her eyes was the arrangement of their legs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“More light, lots of colors—this is a bit off-putting, don’t you think?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A colored man in a dark suit and tie came up to me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

That makes me stare a little longer ’cuz I never knew women wrote books, ’specially colored women. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Fern’s face was turning colors and her eyebrows reached up to say “please, please” so I grabbed Fern’s hand, said, “Come on,” and we exited the 727 without our chaperone. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A dull flush of color mounted the sallow cheeks as he looked at Lily. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her skin was the beautiful color of dark honey and her laughter was sweet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I found a bright orange splash on the other side of a mountain the color of sludge. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still remember, as it was uncommon for white folks to ride out to the colored farms. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face is crimson, nearly the color of her dress. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Anyone who worked at PIH knew that a simple “epi” map—based on what makes people sick and what kills them, and in what numbers and at what ages—could be coded in two colors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Her belly was the exact color of a freshly laid egg. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Yeah, when Jackie Robinson started with the Dodgers, it was as if life had changed, at least for the colored. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings they sit on the porch in Vivian’s old wicker chairs as the sky turns pink and lavender and red, the colors seeping toward them across the bay, a magnificent living watercolor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

"Your grandfather loved to see me in a brightly colored sari." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A car full of young colored men drove slowly by. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

So first we’d give Omi a birthday hug inside the O, and then we’d give her a little red pouch of chocolate pebbles—basically M&M’s, but each one a different pebbly shape and color. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell by the high color in Mom’s cheeks that she was excited about the prospect of an adventure. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I smelled of paint thinner and was covered in dust the color of ash, but he didn’t know that. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The auditorium is packed with people and blazing with color. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The color I’ve always been proud of—the one she gave me? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Silently she handed her sister the leftover white rice-powder paste, the brushes, the colored paints made from burnt earth, lentils, and spices. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had never considered until then that colored people could blush, or maybe it was anger that turned June’s face and ears such a dark plum color. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter what your color is, whether your breath reeks of garlic or pork fat or chilis. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

How the piano and xylophone, the cymbals and drums hold them up like a base color. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Orange and vermillion, magenta and gold—the colors blazed like flames. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ivy clapped her hands over her ears and colored the sounds in her head. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Jojo sat in the back with Stella, busying himself with a bag of marbles, sorting them by color and importance. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ebola had risen in these rooms, flashed its colors, fed, and subsided into the forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But up close, in the sunlight slanting in from the window, they’re a light golden color and so long I don’t see how they keep from getting all tangled up when he blinks. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She has his coloring, wit, love of literature, and sometimes his temper. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She did not want to see her mother’s empty face, her strange swollen body drained of color. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The coffee shop buzzed, college students mingling like showy tropical fish with their brightly colored hair. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Polly, with hair the color of dried grass and eyes the color of a stormy sky, understood tears. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or how good it was either! People forget that a picture ain’t made from just one color. Life ain’t all good or all bad. It’s full of everything.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when I began to understand that the color purple isn’t just a color or the name of a book. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

All the color returns to my face like a giant beet-red face punch. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was a colored man sitting on the bank. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He wore dark-framed glasses, a cream- colored jacket with the zipper half open, and a pair of sharply creased light-brown pants. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your aunt Dorothy lives in Birmingham. There’s a school for coloreds there. It's good too, according to your aunt.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The white poor have a vastly different experience in America than do poor people of color, as they are rarely relegated to racially segregated urban areas characterized by intense poverty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The dark blue shimmered like the deep sea, as if there were infinite depths within the color, and needless to say, it looked amazing on him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They’s two colored mens inside, one drinking a cup a coffee, the other asleep setting straight up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The cub’s warm fur was a delight—so soft, so silky-soft, such beautiful colors, rich gold and deep, dark black. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You girls are all so gifted. I did like that one, the colors are lovely. But what are all those eyes doing in it?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the floor there were packages wrapped in brightly colored paper and tied with gleaming ribbons. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, confinement prevents one having a single gluon on its own, because gluons also have color. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the purposes of the state, colored people became the almost-whites. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1953 I wanted to write stories with secret meanings that would relate to people like me, no matter their color or position in life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Doctors, lawyers, Mr. Cross who own the Southern Times, the colored newspaper that come out ever week. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her skin was still the dark color of mahogany and her hair was still black and, although she was thinner, her belly was not swollen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I mean it felt like the color blue. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” she whispered, indicating the color of the man’s loose shirt. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some colored people hated me because of my blackness. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The flood water was the color of the earth, of their skin, of the blood, his blood dried brown in the bandages. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They say his sister lives here, and he’s coming to visit and intends to take this colored woman to the movie theater this Friday. Not to the balcony, but downstairs in the white section.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny tendrils break off from her color cloud and blend with his. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It took Ekon a moment to remember why that color seemed familiar. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

On the lake they were all the same reddish brown color—the color of dirt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I fan through the different colors of paper—some prints, some solid. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Her skin was purple, gray, cold, the color of those plums. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The store was organized by color, so it was easy to see exactly where we needed to be. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“His eyes are the color of burning coals, and his fangs are bigger and sharper than a javalina’s tusks. But his claws are just as dangerous. He can rip out your heart with them.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

While he hadn’t been watching, the leaves on the maples had turned the color of sweet potatoes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He also had red hair, but of a deeper, less offensive color than Red’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I can play with my pets instead of coloring, if I’m quiet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The different wavelengths of light are what the human eye sees as different colors, with the longest wavelengths appearing at the red end of the spectrum and the shortest wavelengths at the blue end. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hit the cue ball in such a way that it gave a pathetic half roll to the side, gently knocking into a colored ball with a faint click. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My reflection in the mirror catches my eye; my makeup from the tournament earlier now looks smeared and smoky, dampened by the rain, and my hair hangs in wet strands of color. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She saw his cheeks color, his jaw harden. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It made her seem plainer, and her face was made up in pale colors that weren’t flattering either. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Jo couldn’t help smiling at the important air which Meg had unconsciously assumed and which was as becoming as the pretty color varying in her cheeks. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were brown- colored and shaped like men, and icing had been used to make eyes, noses, and button coats. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman with the reddish colored hair, the one who used to feed him, was gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ascending the stairs to my room I passed a large four- color poster titled “Himalayan Trilogy,” depicting Everest, K2, and Lhotse—the planet’s highest, second-highest, and fourth-highest mountains, respectively. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And children, weaving between the groups of adults, not confined to a particular color of clothing—factionless children. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The ballroom burst with color and energy: Japanese in red silk, Bedouins in red and black, Romanians in red, blue, and yellow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The colors are rust and brown and gold like our orchard in fall. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the robot’s careful attention, it was now bursting with colors and scents and flavors. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He gave the pest known as Quang-ha a geometric coloring book and commanded that the kid complete three pages. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was a box of watercolors with twenty-four tubes of color and three brushes and a pad of heavy art paper. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

As we entered, I had seen the balloons and brightly colored paper hats. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

—Maybe black people dream in color, and white people dream in black and white. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he suddenly wondered what it would be like to lead the orchestra and to color the whole world himself. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had four different- colored bands—black, brown, blue, and white—so you could change your watchband to match your outfit. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My taste buds might be coming back, but my colors aren’t. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Everything is the color of a wilted flower from my mom’s shop. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

My mom told me once that colors like that don’t belong in the clouds. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Her surroundings looked almost white, washed out and devoid of all color but that same constant white-gold. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Mama’s lipstick was a creamy rose color; it outlined her lips perfectly, and it matched the color of her fingernails. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On that day, I realized it didn't matter how I saw myself, because other people saw my skin color. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The article went on to say that the Soviets also liked to hide explosives inside brighdy colored toys. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Past trays of bitter gourd, with knives and colored finger guards. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the thing about Omi was that she collected things from nature—seashells, bird feathers, stones in weird shapes and colors. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They could no more explain loving buses than they could explain loving the color purple. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was gaunt with spirit loss, his color sickly. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He had trimmed his beautiful beard and was dressed in a bureaucrat’s gray suit and a faded tie of the same color. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a faded red color, with big, rounded fenders and a bulbous cab. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I smiled and avoided looking at Jilly Baker, who probably thought I wouldn't be any good because I was colored. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Tents in every size, shape, and color were pushed together, so close it was hard to discern where one stopped and another started. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He’d been cool with us at first, but Stan had warmed him up fast, telling him what we were up to, stressing our desire for the cheapest shirts available—any color, any size, any vintage. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The whole sky turned a light orange color for the fourteen seconds the engine was scheduled to fire. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her chest rose and fell with even breaths; her skin was full of color. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We have Green lime And dark cola, And we have An umbrella of five colors. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if through eyelashes, an explosion of colors. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This vast brick temple consisted of seven 18-foot-high stories, each painted a different color. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

And like a lid of a jewelry box, the door opened into a landscape of radiant colors. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Seated in the rows and rows of seats below her are kids of all colors, all around my age, and all wearing the same uniform. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“This one contains the color of the sky after a summer rainstorm. I’ll take it from here and plant it in another place, a canyon where it hasn’t rained for a while.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was staffed by forty or fifty people, some in white coats, others in overalls, all wearing armbands of different colors: red, yellow, blue, and green. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

‘Rose my color is and white, Pretty mouth and green my eyes.’ Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It was a different color, though, and it wasn’t a star. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I brushed my teeth, I wondered how I’d feel if a colored girl were sent to my school. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Ivy weren’t feeling so rotten, she would’ve marveled over the gauzy canopy draped over the bed and how all June’s books were organized by color. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe their hair and eye colors would, too. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Each fall Petra’s mom bought the same color socks for all seven of them so that, in theory, there was always a size that fit. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The soft gray color made my eyes stand out. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They brought children of all ages, all colors, but all males and all with a look of solitude that left no doubt as to the relationship. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was an antique parchment, the pale brownish color of a tea stain. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

His beard, however, grew thick and frizzy and was the color of fox fur. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The unforgettable one was done in florid wash colors, with a caption that read: “Forgive Them Their Trespasses.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She was wearing some tight pants that were the same color as her skin, a light sienna, and for a second I thought she didn’t have any pants on. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The last post-balloon chases her with a brush smudged with a paste the color of a cream cookie. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Dad compromised by taking moving pictures of each of us, first with colored fingers practicing on the paper diagrams and then actually working on the typewriter. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never saw a light change colors like that,” I said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her eyes sparkle and change color in the light. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“They had one water fountain for whites, and one for us. I used to think, What’s the difference between colored water and white water? What does white water taste like?” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor and Theodora looked into a garden, their eyes blinded with the light of sun and rich color; incredibly, there was a picnic party on the grass in the garden. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lying on an unfolded cloth was a square of something that was yellowish-white in color. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All he could do to keep down fights and get the white men out of colored town by nine o’clock. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“As you see, Lilia, it is a different country, a different color,” my father said. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

This group of five or six colored boys was up the street picking berries off the mulberry tree and eating them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I would only take cases for colored people against white people. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had always regarded the color turquoise, like shocking pink and chartreuse, as the color equivalent of the word ain't: quaint when seldom used but vulgar in great doses. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

And black has become a beautiful color—not because it is loved but because it is feared. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted them to know that following your dreams—not just in gymnastics, but in everything—shouldn’t have anything to do with the color of your skin. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But I didn't want to raise any red flags, even though that was my signature color. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Princesse looked up and saw a color typical of the Haitian sky. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“That color blue looks lovely with your skin,” he said, watching me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“What do you think of my walls, mi amor? I painted them blue and green, like the colors of Veracruz, my hometown, which is next to the ocean.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Something about that kind of light can sometimes help bring color back to people’s skin. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Even the colors were crisp: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in every sharp shade that nature can bestow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The fruit was shaped like a lemon, with an outer layer of mixed colors of yellow and red. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My eyes are the color of dirt, almost copper if I am standing in the sun. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Because of my color, they thought I was a colored person, but speaking the same languages meant that I belonged to their tribe. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

From the top, I could see the sprawl of people selling oranges, avocados, packets of nuts on brightly colored pieces of material or small cardboard tables made from overturned boxes. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A phenotype, in contrast, refers to an organism’s physical or biological attributes and characteristics—the color of an eye, the shape of a wing, or resistance to hot or cold temperatures. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She swirled the dessert wine they’d used to conceal the sweetness, but in the bronze goblet, it was difficult to see the color. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There was no guessing what the original color might have been. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There could be the whole team, eighteen of us, waiting for some water at the colored fountain, and the white fountain next to it be empty. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burn is maroon- colored and wrinkled like a dead apple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the comb off my white vanity, noticing a fresh coloring book and pencils sitting on my chair. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At first it seemed as if there was nothing anybody could do about it and that black was just an inconvenient color. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They had no idea what real colored gangsters were like. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The dead grass on the distant hills was a yellowish red, not orange but a drier color: orange-white, like the haze in the air. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like my sisters and brothers, he frequently interrupted the story to ask for more details, like what color was the Prince’s horse, and what did the fairy godmother wear? When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

One side of the head and shoulders was reddish brown and hairless; the acid of the oak leaves had tanned the surface of the wound the color of leather. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colors remind me of flames, and when she wears her hair in a ponytail, she almost looks like a torch. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And a colored man taught mathematics at the junior high school. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Like a punishment. The first night. That guy. The hacker. It was like I was being punished for even trying. That . . . he . . .” Now the color was coming back into her face. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feet, the curve of the neck, the colors—he could have been a hoot. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On the walls were several prints, which were of elongated figures, murkily colored. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But he refused to share it with a colored lady.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

American military maps showed this region of South Vietnam in different colors: one color for land controlled by the South Vietnamese government, another for territory controlled by the Viet Cong. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Olmsted valued plants, trees, and flowers not for their individual attributes but rather as colors and shapes on a palette. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

To use up some time, I put down the white piece and began rewriting each number on the board in its correct color. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A layer of clouds muddied the sky, bleeding the surrounding color, leaving everything monochrome and drab. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

This time the voice came from so close that Milo jumped with surprise, for. sitting on his right shoulder, so lightly that he hardly noticed, was a small creature exactly the color of his shirt. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mama wore a long, crocheted, rose- colored dress. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the color of the moss near the spring, and their backs were spotted the color of wet sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The size, texture, and colors inform us that this is not to be interpreted as a real target. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The side panels were adorned with painted peacock feathers, green and gold and purple, the same color as the tassels. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Consuelo and Catarina would be disappointed that she did not try it on at once, but she didn’t have the feeling in her heart to match its vivid color. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Even the water was the wrong color—a Shimmering turquoise close to shore, and farther out a blue so deep that it was almost black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He is staring straight ahead, mouth open, in absolute shock as the reflected colors from the cartoon move across his face. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

We figured that that was how the commercial people told her to say it Not too colored. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps more concerning, though, is the fact that inclusion of people of color in power structures, particularly at the top, can paralyze reform efforts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The other states of the cotton empire absorbed the stock; Florida and Louisiana, in their explosive growth, were particularly famished for colored hands, especially the seasoned variety. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I also have a white plastic sunglasses case with colored shells and sequins and a green plastic starfish sewed onto it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

As he and his two bodyguards drove along the banks of the Danube, Bobby noticed that the river wasn’t the color he’d thought it would be. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

White light consists of light waves of all different wavelengths, or colors. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground does have a sandy color to it, or gray, but your feet won’t sink in. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“There’s two packages of colored paper, he told me. And some cough medicine. And there’s three pairs of girls’ shoes.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The colors appear in geometric shapes like spirals or balls or zigzags, that sort of thing. Or sometimes just a hazy patch of colored air.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The only color was some dark, spindly bushes and spiney cacti. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

But it was the colors that drew me in. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa’- to’ch was standing high and clear; months and years had no relation to the colors of gray slate and yellow sandstone circling it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had golden honey skin, almost the same color as mine, and a ready smile. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Everything he did for the rest of the day was colored with a bitter dye, and he thought, more than once, about walking down to the bar to see what was going on. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The climate changed quickly to cold and the trees burst into color, the reds and yellows you can’t believe. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hades wore black armor and a cloak the color of fresh blood. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ben spread his feet apart, to ground himself, lifted an imaginary microphone to his mouth, and began the color commentary. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Her hair was thick, curly, the color of a blackbird’s wings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“About as good as you’ll find anywhere. The last colored man who worked for us stayed ten years.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had no obvious color, come to that. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The mother had devised the color code to save time. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Even though it was just a bunch of singing and coloring in coloring books and listening to Mrs. Davidson, I had learned one thing. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom taught US Latino literature in the English department, so sniffing out “authors of color” was one of her SuperMexican superpowers. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Which was not a good color on him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Here and there a middle-aged or older woman wore a heavy, colorless kimono, and a couple of somewhat younger women wore colored ones. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Very gradually, like one instrument after another being tentatively rehearsed, beacons of color began to pierce the sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I myself wear miniskirts in primary colors, with tights underneath and boots, and an ankle-length coat over top. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like, if someone came up to you and said, “All right, now whatever you do, DON’T think of the color red.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair and beard and mustache were dark red too, and his eyes gleamed startlingly blue against his coloring. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ann Wilson was seated in the colored section of the nearly empty Trailways bus with two-year-old Lydia sprawled asleep across her lap. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’s let her hair down and her new dress is loose like a slip, short, the color matte black. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course those boys went too far. Whatever that colored boy deserved, he didn’t deserve getting shot and tossed into the Tallahatchie, that’s for sure.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

How to wash one’s own hair; how to judge which colors suited one; how to say no in such a charming way that no offense was given; how to put on lipstick, powder, scent. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana’s eyes fell upon a small, shapely green lamp, exactly the color of the green grass she missed back home in the United States—who ever thought about grass when you had it? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

One wore a suit with pants that looked like fresh butter, the coat like canary feathers, and a tightly knotted neckerchief the color of lemon peels. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Inside was the Milkybar and two licorice laces and three clementines and a pink wafer biscuit and my red food coloring. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘Now, boy,’ this lady said to him firmly, ‘you just show me the color of your money.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako did not know if he imagined the same thing over and over, or if maybe he sometimes saw green melons and sometimes orange ones, all different colors. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He arranged the fruits with an eye for color and design. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Inej knew that ordinarily Nina would have used pigments to alter her own hair color, but there simply wasn’t time. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The parade of famous visitors spreading the farm’s renown made the place into a symbol of colored uplift—and a target. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wesley made beautiful clothes for her daughter— dresses just the right length and color and that perfectly fit Cynthia’s tiny waist. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of the frames he lifted out leaked honey the color of plums. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was famous in my neighborhood just because of the color of my skin. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Everyone, in some form or another, had the color on them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The color had not returned to her thin cheeks. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Every white woman I’ve ever worked for ate in the dining room as far away from the colored help as they could. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For now he's focusing on drawing; color will have to wait. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The color drained out of her face and arms. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The royal hourglass that measures the length of day and night churns with sand the color of white diamonds. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He hums as he mixes colors on his palette. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

"But I'm glad you've started wearing colors again. You look like your old self and that makes me feel young again." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His hair is a deep toffee color under the porch light, but his eyes are still the brightest blue I’ve ever seen. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I stared at the different colored vegetables in front of me. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Hospitals, schools, private homes, banks, office buildings, restaurants, and movie theaters butted one against the other in a jumble of color and pattern and noise. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Natalians are noted for their loyalty to their region, and these peculiar bonds of attachment can sometimes even transcend color. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z