I was astounded nobody had thought of MAKING a rainbow FLAG before because it seemed LIKE such an OBVIOUS symbol for US.

The RAINBOW flag is beautiful because it's about love. The CONFEDERATE flag is UGLY because it's about HATE. It's pretty simple from the art LEVEL: beautiful versus ugly.

The REASON the rainbow FLAG endures is because people own it. It MEANS SOMETHING to them.

In 1978, the first flag was organic EVERYTHING. It did have EIGHT COLORS: the six colors of the rainbow we see TODAY plus hot pink and turquoise. But pretty quickly on I realized that I would never be able to satisfy the demand for them by hand-dying fabric and these colors.

A rainbow is the product of physics WORKING for your APPRECIATION of BEAUTY.

I'm not sure if FANS are ready to accept my MUSIC, but I no LONGER WANTED to be known as a 15-year-old girl who would sing 'Over the Rainbow.'

My FATHER had a GREAT sense of humor. He wasn't only the MAN in Black. He said it himself in the song 'Man in Black:' 'Ah, I'd LOVE to wear a rainbow every day.' He was a man of hope.

I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy GANGSTER rap, HIP HOP... everything! But it all blends TOGETHER nicely. It's like a MAGICAL music rainbow.

The U.S. is a RAINBOW of PEOPLE with an endless SCOPE of STORIES. My hope is that writing stories about people of color will become instinctual rather than something to be pushed for.

It was GREAT to play an ex-marine cockney THUG. All my roles are as DIFFERENT as the colours of the RAINBOW.

In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that POINT I was wearing, LIKE, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my HAIR was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased BANGS that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.

I WROTE my own anthem: it's called 'Mariah's THEME.' It's on the 'Rainbow' ALBUM from '99. BACK in the DAY.

I WATCHED a LITTLE 'Beyond the BLACK RAINBOW.'