Brown Skin Quotes

• Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Race, White

  Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.63

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  Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Beauty, Beautiful, Makeup

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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• Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much myself. Did I not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Thinking, White, Justice

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of values”, Harcourt

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• I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian
  Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.

  Phife Dawg

  Girl, Rapper, Names

  "Phife Dawg, member of A Tribe Called Quest, dies at 45". www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2016.

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• People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Thinking, Race

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can connect with him as a person with brown skin who's viewed differently by the world. In terms of his culture, we're thinking about where we are locating Wakanda within the continent, and what the people and history of that region are like. It's a process of investigation to help inform the story at this point. But we are going to be engaged with consultants who are experts on the continent and on African history and politics.

  Joe Robert Cole

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  "Oscars So White? Black Panther to the Rescue". Interview with Brandon E. Patterson, www.motherjones.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience, this is how I have come to the paintings I do now.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Past, Years, Black

  "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.

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• Every year, my family and I would go visit my moms family in Texas. We would drive from Chicago to Texas, and once we started to get towards San Antonio, everyone looked like me! It was such a great feeling. Everyone had the same brown skin that I did.

  Marisol Nichols

  Mom, Texas, Years

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• So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one

  Zack de la Rocha

  Men, People, Grandparent

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• African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Barack Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

  Alveda King

  Opportunity, Missing, African American

  "Here's Hoping Herman Cain Will Stay In the Race" by Alveda King, www.foxnews.com. December 02, 2011.

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