Brown skin Quote by Stephen King

“I realize I'm black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody's wish.”

— Michael Jordan

“Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails done. Or…

— Laura Yes Yes

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

— Angie Thomas

“So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves.”

— Malcolm X

“Luckily, I was not born a white man.* *This has never before been said in the history of humanity.”

— Mindy Kaling

“I knew, and every black man there knew, that I, as a man now white once again, could say the things that needed saying…

— John Howard Griffin

“You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The Negro is…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.”

— Nadine Gordimer

I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I’ve often thought that being a light-skinned black woman is like being a well-dressed person who is also homeless.”

— Zinzi Clemmons

“I am not 'African American' —I am black American.”

— John McWhorter

“...living here, you don't know anything about white people. Where I'm from, everything is mixed. In Atlanta, at least out here where we stay…

— Tayari Jones