Black person Quote by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

“She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and moist eyes with…

— Raymond Chandler

“All the color had been drained from her face. Instead of being red with anger it had become as pallid as the quicksilver light…

— Gerard Harrison

“Mostly, though, he looked at the girl, with her red hair and bare white arms. There was something about the whiteness of those arms…

— Joe Hill

“Her skin was not a surface; it was an indefinite glory of the palest rose and orange that chose to mould itself to those…

— Geoffrey Household

“She was apparently dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, all grown up. He certainly felt like the Big Bad Wolf looking at her. He…

— Chessela Helm

“The red priestess shuddered. Blood trickled down her thigh, black and smoking. The fire was inside her, an agony, an ecstasy, filling her, searing…

— George R.R. Martin

“I grew sodden with light; my skin on the inside glowed a dull red.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Her hair was the blackest I ever saw. Her eyes matched her hair. Her nose was not quite large enough, I admit. Her mouth…

— Lewis Carroll

“Ransie was a narrow six feet of sallow brown skin and yellow hair. The imperturbability of the mountains hung upon him like a suit…

— O. Henry

“Her black brows, her reddish-tawny hair and the pure red and white of her complexion defied the searching decomposing radiance: she might have been…

— Edith Wharton

“revealing a splotchy red forehead, shiny with sweat.”

— Lauren Oliver

“red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to…

— George R.R. Martin