When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring… — Anna Deavere Smith 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
Coming from parents who came over from the West Indies to the U.K. and always being subject to being the other; meaning… — Judi Love Copy Share Image
“She was young and old, fat and thin, dark skinned and fair. In an instant, she was every woman in the world,… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
One thing I am quite passionate about is the absence of dark-skinned women in the media, so I have a passion to… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I would pretend to be a dark-skinned princess in the Sahara Desert or one of the Bantu women living in the Congo...… — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
It's really maddening out there for dark-skinned actresses in terms of the opportunities we get. There's just so much talent that is… — Rutina Wesley Copy Share Image
After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity. — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I've always been 'other' in all the spaces that I've been in. Even when I first moved to America, just the idea… — Jodie Turner-Smith Copy Share Image
Wings in the Night”) that has regrettably achieved some popularity on neo-Nazi websites runs: “The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we… — Ice T 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
“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
This will play right into Obama's hands. He's humanitarian, compassionate. They'll use this to burnish their, shall we say, 'credibility' with the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Xavier said...[he] was making a list of dark-skinned saints to correct the western historical record that acknowledged only fair saints with blond… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
“She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“Ranger was not husband material. He was a heart-stopping handsome Latino, dark-skinned and dark-eyed. He was strong inside and out, an enigma… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
My one thing is that I won't do the sun. I stay away. I will get a little and then come back… — Cedella Marley 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
When you're, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don't really take the time… — SZA Copy Share Image
A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different… — Jane Yolen 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
What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
When you're a Black actress, the box that we often get put in is so small. And me being a dark-skinned Black… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
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