“And when James asked what color God was, she said, God is the color of water.”

“God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.”

“He said he couldn't understand a world 'shameless and cruel enough to divide its people by color when color is in fact the sign of God's artistic genius.”

“I asked Granny one time if she thought green might be God's favorite color since he'd made so many shades of it.”

“Besides, the only color God see in any of us is the color of our soul.”

“From then on I had her in my memory with so much clarity that I could do what I wanted with her. I changed the color of her eyes according to my state of mind: the color of water when she woke, the color of syrup when she laughed, the color of light when she was annoyed. I dressed her according to the age and condition that suited my changes of mood: a novice in love at twenty, a parlor whore at forty, the queen of Babylon at seventy, a saint at one hundred.”