Quotes of: Skin-color Keyword

If you don't Understand the color of Darkness and Loneliness Then you must be Blind

Yaganesh Derasari

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

Annie Leibovitz

When Jesus was wrapping up his days on earth, he didn't tell us to go to church. He didn't tell us to engage in a spiritualized version of channel surfing, as we hop from place to place in search of just the right programming to entertain us. He told...

The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice, and Love

At the Temple of the Seven-Handed Sek a hasty convocation of priests and ritual heart-transplant artisans agreed that the hundred-span-high statue of Sek was altogether too holy to be made into a magic picture, but a payment of two left them astounde...

The Color of Magic

That," she said, "is a little closer to how I imagine it works. Whether or not you pray has absolutely nothing to do with the person to your left. It's like saying you shouldn't get the moon in your window, or else the other cars wouldn't get the moo...

The Color Master: Stories

My eyes change color depending on my mood and what I’m wearing. If I’m wearing an acorn brown shirt, my eyes look like squirrel fur. And if I’m wearing no shirt at all, my eyes look more nude and flesh-colored. I guess my ex girlfriend, Zelda, ...

Gosh, I probably shouldn't publish this.

The races are like America's children. White people are the firstborn, so they were Dad's favorite. Black people are the second kids, the abused ones, so they still hate Dad. Latinos are the third, caught in the middle and always trying to make peace...

The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America

We were all born to be peaceful citizens of the world. Take care of your global garden and do not allow evil gardeners try to convince you which flowers are ugly and which should be destroyed. This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of a...

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

I think a lover, when broken, is given a gift not a scar, not a poem, not a rhyme (unless it fits.) I think as humans, we see a set of hues but when wounded, we see something more: deeper shades of hurt and worry, colors never seen before. Because I ...

M: A Collection of Poems to Mark the End of an Era

That's what a man is supposed to do for his wife. Listen, if a nigger didn't get lynched every now and then, well, there's just no telling what they'd do to us." "Who?" Lily asked. "Why, honey, the niggers and our husbands both. I don't care what col...

Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdered heart. The beads collect in borders of mercy. The yellows are dyed with the ocher of silence. There is no telling which twin will fall asleep first,...

The Antelope Wife

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other c...

Tibor Kalman

It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the sa...

C. JoyBell C.

Sofia: Sat in that jail, I sat in that jail til I near about done rot to death. I know what it like to wanna go somewhere and cain't. I know what it like to wanna sing... and have it beat out 'ya. I want to thank you, Miss Celie, fo everything you do...

The Color Purple

Samantha: The state is currently spending five times more for the education for a white child than it is fitting to educate a colored child. That means better textbooks for that child than for that child. I say that's a shame, but my opponent says to...

The Great Debaters

Social hierarchy doesn’t hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.

Freewill

The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They’re lost in the shadows of the moon.

Burning Falls

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

Joel Edgerton

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

The Human Script

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Seriously... I'm Kidding

Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last.

Skin Trade