Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
“Light skin, dark skin, my Asian persuasion/ I got them all that’s why these girls out here hatin’” —JANET JACKSON” — L. Divine Copy Share Image
Any character who had dark skin, I got all those parts. I could play a Polynesian, East Indian princess, whatever. — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
“On any woman, the shine was brilliant. But, in contrast to their dark skin, it truly was the Milky Way of watches.” — Holliday Vann 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
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
“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
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
“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
“People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. People who love themselves have no reason to ever judge another person on looks.… — Dan Pearce 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
“We were in Venice at the time of the revels before Lent. I went into the plaza wearing a mask and hood.… — Alice Randall 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
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
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
“So all you desi boys and girls, dark skin or not, you are beautiful just the way you are. No need to… — Simi Sunny 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
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
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
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
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
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
“But that afternoon there was an orchestra playing. Music filling the brownstone. Black fingers pulling violin bows and strumming cellos, dark lips… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“And this time it’s different. This time our bodies slide together like they were made to fit. This time Tyson doesn’t have… — Paula Stokes Copy Share Image
But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
