Community Quote by Bill Duke

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

Only black people act like dark skin & light skin are two different races..

— Christian Heggs

“There is no difference between dark skin and light skin if you are both black. You are not inferior or superior, you are the…

— Angela Khristin Brown

My dark skin might not be satisfying for your preference, but it's the skin that my ancestors wore when they were working hard for…

— Brester Mishoe

Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious…

— Estelle

Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive way that…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I've experienced colorism in that way: where if you're lighter, then you'll potentially be accepted into society better than if you were darker-skinned.

— Diane Guerrero

In my country - even though we have a lot of dark-skinned people - people think the lighter you are, the better you are.…

— Khoudia Diop

Between skin and skin, there is only light.

— John Fowles

When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going…

— Lupita Nyong'o

In Western Catholicism, darkness was evil. In the colonial and imperial context, dark skin was always weak, powerless, subjugated. If you see these images…

— Kerry James Marshall

I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.

— Tim Burton