Failure Quote by Ellen O'Connell

“Everything around me was so starkly white that I began to believe that I would turn white sooner or later. I was quietly being…

— Nikesh Shukla

“Skin color doesn't make you different," Melody said. "We're all the same on the inside." The only people who ever say that," Raymond replied,…

— Jodi Picoult

“I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.”

— Curt Flood

“I am pleased the Lord made my skin Black. I wish He had made it thicker.”

— Curt Flood

“...the white man's God was a lot like him. He never for a second figured there was anyone else already here. He figured it…

— R.S. Belcher

“I stare up at whiteness. When I was young, I thought that was what heaven would be like, all white light and nothing else.…

— Veronica Roth

“But white Americans do not believe in death, and this is why the darkness of my skin so intimidates them.”

— James Baldwin

“After living in Smokey Hollow these three months my bearded face was darkened to a tan, and for more than a moment, I couldn't…

— Peter Jenkins

“Man, you ain't white. You light-skinned.”

— Angie Thomas

“It was like the face of some ancient archangel, judging justly after heroic wars. There was laughter in the eyes, and in the mouth…

— G.K. Chesterton

“So, what brings you to this wonderful world of white?”

— Hannah McCoy

“I tried tanning, but somehow only turned a beautiful shade of lobster-red before my skin puckered, peeled off, and revealed a lovely, new, white…

— Lacey Weatherford