Everything on this earth is made up of color. Look around now. The desks are brown, the walls are blue, the "blackboard" is green. Steel is grey, glass is colorless, the sun is yellow. The night is black. Yet the foundation of life has no color. If nothing else on this earth had color, imagine how dull it would

At last black people in South Africa have dignity and believe it's not what you look like, do or say that makes you a better person, but what you are.

be. And yet if we look at history and our very recent past, the greatest cause of conflict has been due to color.

If there is any way of "judging" people it should rather be for their worth.

The author of the book, The color of water, James McBride, grew up one of twelve siblings in the all-black housing projects, as the son of a black minister and a Jewish woman who would not admit she was white. James McBride has written this powerful portrait of growing up. Issues of race and identity were troubling for the twelve siblings and manifested themselves in different ways. His mother, Ruth's- ideas on these issues were summed up in her a

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