Dark Quote by Nicola Roberts

I always felt that people found women more attractive if they were tanned and there are some parts where I'm so pale, I'm blue…

— Nicola Roberts

I'm pretty pale. In high school I was insecure and thought it'd be cool to go to a tanning bed. Now I just let…

— Taylor Swift

I was the darkest skinned person in my family. I remember how I used to feel - like I wasn't pretty enough, or I…

— Rapsody

There's this issue where I'm really doing well and got hate 'cause I'm too light-skinned. I understand why people say that - throughout history,…

— Jorja Smith

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

I had a very narrow-minded view on what was pretty and what wasn't. I automatically thought that tanned was attractive.

— Nicola Roberts

People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you…

— Anna Paquin

I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin, and my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Me being dark-skinned, that was like a big thing. Growing up, I hated myself. It was, like, weird. Kids are cruel.

— Tierra Whack

I wanted to be pale. I didn't wanna go in the sun, because I was in school with a lot of white girls. I…

— Jorja Smith

There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion,…

— Ed Smith

If I am tanned, I feel a million times better.

— Prue Leith