Able Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

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

— Christian Heggs

I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.

— Chance the Rapper

There is no difference. So what, the skin color is a different shade? But what the heck should that mean? Why should that matter?…

— Amber Hope

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

“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

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

Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a…

— Halle Berry

There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans, whereas we…

— Cornel West

The Negro is superior to the white race. If the latter do not forget their pride of race and color, and amalgamate with the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Blackness has always been stigmatised, even amongst black people who flee from the density of that blackness. Some black people recoil from black people…

— Kerry James Marshall

“One of the more obvious differences between modern humans is skin color. We make crude visual distinctions and effectively meaningless categorizations based on average…

— Adam Rutherford

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