Dark Skin Quotes

• When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

  Nate Parker

  Dark, Skins, Noses

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

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Beauty, Beautiful, Makeup

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• Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

  Stephen King

  Stars, Dark, Skins

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.409, Anchor

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• But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony,
  and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever
  their continent, their class, their color.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Mean, Dark

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

  J. Cole

  Mean, Successful, Dark

  Interview with Clay Cane, www.bet.com. August 22, 2013.

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• Negroid traits, dark skin, flat, thick nose.

  Frederick Hertz

  Dark, Skins, Noses

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• When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?" I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn't get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn't hearing this from my immediate family - my mother never said anything to that effect - but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Mother, Teacher, Jobs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is "black" or "white." I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Eye, Writing, Dark

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

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• I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new Black sunam qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now... I have hopes for myself.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Brother, Dark, Rejection

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• The Lord has never indicated that black skin came because of being less faithful. Now, the Indian; we know why he has changed, don't we? The Book of Mormon tells us that; and he has a dark skin, but he has promise there that through faithfulness, that they all again become a white and delightsome people.

  LeGrand Richards

  Book, Native American, Dark

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• In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Country, Dark, Hair

  "Mengistu Haile Mariam: The Profile of a Dictator". Ethiopian Review, February 1994.

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• Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.

  Gerald Durrell

  Children, Dark, Night

  Gerald Durrell, Lee Durrell (1996). “The best of Gerald Durrell”, Harpercollins

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• The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Laughter, Eye, Dark

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

  Rashida Jones

  Brother, Eye, Dark

  "Q&A: Rashida Jones on Writing, Ron Swanson and Irrationality Over Her Race". Interview with Kevin Polowy, www.mtv.com. August 02, 2012.

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