Colour Of My Skin Quotes

#1. It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

Kelly Osbourne

#2. Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

Tessanne Chin

#3. With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of ear-shapes and chin shapes, skin colour and hairdo ... that was one of just many examples where we really thought, perhaps this isn't going to work.

Jonathan Ive

#4. Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.

Veronica Roth

#5. We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.

Marlon Wayans

#6. The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this island is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may have suffered and whatever may be the colour of his skin.

William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

#7. My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man's skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

Nelson Mandela

#8. Their skin is the colour grey would be if grey turned grey.

James Marshall

#9. It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

John Lennon

#10. I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.

Pauline Hanson

#11. Another possibility is that competition for resources flared up into violence and genocide. Tolerance is not a Sapiens trademark. In modern times, a small difference in skin colour, dialect or religion has been enough to prompt one group of Sapiens to set about exterminating another group. Would

Yuval Noah Harari

#12. It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.

Giles Foden

#13. In appearance Sachish gives the impression of a celestial being. His eyes glow; his long, slender fingers are like tongues of flame; the colour of his skin is more a luminescence than a colour. As soon as I set eyes on him I seemed to glimpse his inner self; and from that moment I loved him.

Rabindranath Tagore

#14. The marriage broker had assured her the groom's family was more concerned about the colour of Malli's skin than the size of her dowry.

Rasana Atreya

#15. My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#16. Death, you are no different to me than my lover with cloud-coloured skin, and your hair a mass of dark cloud, your hands like blood-red lotus, and your lips the colour of blood.

Tagore Rabindranath

#17. He was obviously proud of his Berber skin. This is the colour of wheat and gold.

Andre Aciman

#18. He flushed, the colour dark against his pale skin. 'I mean. Tessa Gray, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?' Jem ...

Cassandra Clare

#19. Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

Keith Henson