Don't be "afraid" Bob, nothing to "fear".
Go to my post, click on the quote marks above the post. A new window will open with my message 'quoted'.
You'll then see the tags within the open and close brackets (greater than, less than symbols) -- found on your keyboard shifted from the comma and period.
You can either type these yourself, or copy them to a text file to save and recall when you want to do the same. Experiment with the color= reference to try different colors. I believe you can also use HEX color values or names. There are other font commands such as "face=" and "style="