Color Vision Deficiency

Famous quotes containing the words color, vision and/or deficiency:

    “‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
    Taught my benighted soul to understand
    That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:
    Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
    Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
    “Their color is a diabolic die.”
    Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
    May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.”
    —Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784)

    ““The god has not yet answered to our pity
    For the black vision and tangle in her brains,
    Nor is there knowing soever in the city
    Of the red histories that throbbed in her blue veins.””
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)