Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?
The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
Health and beauty is not just about what you apply. If you don't have it together on the inside, then nothing else is going to matter.
Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.
I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble.
When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.
I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be ...
For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
