Dark Quote by Kanye West

“The number-one draft pick or the up-and-coming action hero will never choose me, because I’m dark skinned,” my friend said. On the other hand,…

— Gabrielle Union

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…

— Kanye West

“The vitality associated with blackness might cancel out the vulnerability associated with femininity in the search for a field hand, while a "bright disposition"…

— Walter Johnson

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

It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.

— Ryan Lochte

I always felt different and it was because I was Middle Eastern. Where most people were very fair, light-skinned, and had blue eyes, I…

— Huda Kattan

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost…

— Pam Grier

It's just one of those things coming off the boat, especially in New York City. I didn't have style. I was dark skinned -…

— Uriah Hall

I saw the things that my sister went through - she's dark skinned - with boys not considering her attractive in her youth and…

— Bill Duke

My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short…

— Tupac Shakur

“breath, life after seven decades plus three years is a lot of breathing. seventy three years on this earth is a lot of taking…

— Haki R. Madhubuti

Can we first take care of our 'brown lives matter' in India and then worry about the U.S.? I find it bizarre that racism…

— Masaba Gupta