Skinned Quotes
133 quotes by 120 authors
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There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'
— John Henrik Clarke
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are…
— Langston Hughes
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Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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As for them pretty light-skinned models standin in the cold, ah yeah they with us.
— Drake
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Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts…
— John Barth
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Don't let the bad shots get to you. Don't let yourself become angry. The true scramblers are thick-skinned. And they always beat the whiners.
— Paul Runyan
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Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.
— Danielle Steel
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Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality.…
— William Commanda
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Confidence is the only key. I know a lot of people who aren't traditionally 'beautiful' - not symmetrical or perfect-bodied or perfect-skinned. But none of…
— Emma Stone
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Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
— Richard Armour
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The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?
— Montgomery Clift
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A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How…
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned,
— Lupita Nyong'o
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its…
— Pam Grier
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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 black community --…
— Rush Limbaugh
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There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we…
— Malcolm X
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"...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect."
— Harry Reid
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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were…
— Mark Twain
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(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as…
— Harry Reid
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