Only black people act like dark skin & light skin are two different races.. — Christian Heggs Copy Share Image
We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
“Team Light Skin? No. Team Dark Skin? No. Team Brown Skin? No. TEAM MELANIN… Black Women and Black Girls are Exquisite Beauty… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
“It occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.” — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees Copy Share Image
I just loved makeup. My mother loved it as well - and was obsessed by the fact that we couldn't find any… — Pat McGrath 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
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
Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson, Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia,… — P. Chidambaram Copy Share Image
“No, I’m NOT Team Light Skin. No, I’m NOT Team Dark Skin. No, I’m NOT Team Brown Skin. I’m Team Melanin because… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
“He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs. "One rule in life", he… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I have quite dark skin, and when I had my son, I suffered quite bad pigmentation; I had dark patches on my… — Louise Nurding Copy Share Image
Yeah, racist people look at me like I'm a martian, Check the card, yeah my money lookin dark skinned, Tell the bank… — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]...… — Mengistu Haile Mariam 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
I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded.… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
MYOB - mind your own body. It's important because I don't happen to have the kind of body that we usually see… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
“He’s going to get us all killed,” she said. Jesper stretched his long arms overhead and grinned, his teeth white against his… — Leigh Bardugo 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“Calvin sits up, jerking his guitar to stand on one thigh. “Mr. Okai.” He swallows. “I didn’t realize you were standing there.”… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“I wiped my eyes on my sleeve and jumped when I turned and found Ren’s brother standing behind me as a man.… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“Staring down at Hunter, she noticed things about him that she hadn’t before. Or perhaps it was that she now saw him… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“Then Wang Lung turned to the woman and looked at her for the first time. She had a square, honest face, a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“He was attractive and he knew it, but he pretended he had no idea. Therefore he was both vain and disingenuous. Tall,… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“The first one, with a wispy background that suggested feathers, gave the impression of an angelic figure with my face, dark skin… — Amelia C. Gormley Copy Share Image
“Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I still worry about Africa, we are slaves to western and Eastern Brands and we do not cherish and love our own.… — Tare Munzara Copy Share Image
I put my hand on the dark skin and felt the chill of centuries long gone. It was as if I had… — Nikolai Vereshchagin Copy Share Image
I grew up as the ugly duckling. I was the only one with a dark skin and therefor I didn't really fit… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched. That… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
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
“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
Dark skin is considered less than light skin in the in the minds of many in our community and in the media. — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
![“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!” quote by Mengistu Haile Mariam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ed/mengistu-haile-mariam-31262_aristocratic_in-this-country-some-aristocratic-famili_2249190.jpg)
