Skinned Quotes

133 quotes by 120 authors

In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were black or brown-skinned… — John Pilger
When I was 5, someone thought it was smart to let me watch The People Under the Stairs. It might not have even been that… — Ellen Page
Iâ€™m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. Iâ€™m dark skinned. Iâ€™m quirky. Iâ€™m shy. Iâ€™m strong. Iâ€™m guarded. Iâ€™m weak at… — Viola Davis
Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signsÂ—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured — Toni Morrison
But for real, for me, I feel like with the red lipstick thing it all depends on the pair of complexion. I'm just being for… — ASAP Rocky
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
The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire,… — Jose Canseco
After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity. — Cat Stevens
I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach. — Clive Anderson
Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene. All immigrants bring exotic… — Daniel Pipes
Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus. — John Fugelsang
Congress is best viewed from a distanceâ€”the farther the betterâ€”because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at… — Robert M. Gates
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. — Billy Sunday
When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not every project will… — Neil Gaiman
There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned. — Tamara Ecclestone
There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he… — Jack Handey
I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker… — Jack Handey
I knew when I wrote the line "light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson" [from the song "Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big… — Kanye West
Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people… — Nawal El Saadawi
Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. Iâ€™m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody. — Richard Siken

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