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Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen…

— Randall Kennedy

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

— Stokely Carmichael

Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.

— Anonymous

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

— Charles Lamb

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

— Langston Hughes

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

— Ethel Waters

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

— Samuel George Morton

...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect.

— Harry Reid

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

— Langston Hughes

Dark skin, light skin, Asian and white women.

— Trinidad James

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.

— Ellsworth Huntington

Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.

— Malcolm X