A tall, broad-shouldered man with dark skin and a gap tooth - I wasn't the image of 'old Hollywood beauty.' — Winston Duke Copy Share Image
“There is no difference between dark skin and light skin if you are both black. You are not inferior or superior, you… — Angela Khristin Brown Copy Share Image
I always felt different and it was because I was Middle Eastern. Where most people were very fair, light-skinned, and had blue… — Huda Kattan Copy Share Image
Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson, Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched. — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
“They were gone. They'd come for her, but she'd missed them and she was never going to get home again. When she… — Kaitlyn O'Connor Copy Share Image
Latin beauty means being proud of yourself and your culture; being sophisticated and beautiful; and embracing your complexion - whether you have… — Chrissie Fit Copy Share Image
Can we first take care of our 'brown lives matter' in India and then worry about the U.S.? I find it bizarre… — Masaba Gupta Copy Share Image
My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned.… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“He puts his arm around me, the lights dancing on his dark skin constantly skipping across to mine, planting a myriad of… — Poppet Copy Share Image
The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Anyone that is Hispanic will tell you that we're not just monolithic, we're not just one color, and that a lot of… — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
What does it mean when I wear something that makes me look like a Disney Princess? Versus something that's like 'ooh, maybe… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
When I moved out here and people saw my name... I had a shaved head, dark skin, and a tattoo...You would be… — Freddie Prinze Jr Copy Share Image
“People from all over the world have passed through this village, son," said his father. "They come in search of new things,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“He looked back at the stairs. The man he had stabbed wasn’t moving. His dark skin had taken on the gray pallor… — Andrew Warren Copy Share Image
“And then around 5,000 years ago, another major wave of easterners arrive. The Yamnaya came from the Russian Steppes, driving sheep, riding… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“For as I am standing there I look closer into the grandstand and see that there is someone waiting. It is my… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“The number-one draft pick or the up-and-coming action hero will never choose me, because I’m dark skinned,” my friend said. On the… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
“I have never been this white anywhere in the world. I've never had the most obvious, most useful kind of privilege as… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
“I stood surrounded by naked women not one of them bearing even the remotest resemblance to a centerfold. We had large thighs… — Phyllis Curott Copy Share Image
Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
I am an African-American woman of dark skin tone, and there are very specific roles that are usually given to African-American women… — LaChanze Copy Share Image
My dark skin might not be satisfying for your preference, but it's the skin that my ancestors wore when they were working… — Brester Mishoe Copy Share Image
“because this is how it was with them: the boy’s father had dark skin, darker even than my own, and the boy’s… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I have dark skin. My nickname is El Negro. They call me El Negro in Mexico because even in my country, the… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
In Western Catholicism, darkness was evil. In the colonial and imperial context, dark skin was always weak, powerless, subjugated. If you see… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
For black people who are really dark - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“He looked up and I realised how close we were, both of us leaning in together. I blinked a few times, suddenly… — Heather Anastasiu Copy Share Image
Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice, not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I love my complexion, but like so many of us, in the early years at primary school, I grew up thinking that… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
“Does anyone in this room have it?" "No, Chris, no one here has it." "How do you know?" "Because the mark was… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
It's just one of those things coming off the boat, especially in New York City. I didn't have style. I was dark… — Uriah Hall Copy Share Image
Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
There's not many models in the U.S. that have my depth - like, really dark skin - that are also plus size.… — Philomena Kwao Copy Share Image
“opening to reveal toothless maws. He knocked their disease-weakened arms away and fought onward. When Roan reached the top of the human… — David Estes Copy Share Image
“A group of tiny warriors no more than 2" high, their dark skins making them almost impossible to see, were silently surrounding… — Tanya Huff Copy Share Image
When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
