Light Skinned Quotes

#1. I'm the light skinned version of Mandingo, I've seen more Beatles and Jagged Edges than Ringo.

Ludacris

#2. There are plenty of Latina actresses that no one's ever heard of ... Some are really brown, some are light-skinned, and some look like they're Caucasian, but it's like we only want to identify with a certain kind of look and celebrate that under the guise that this is a 'Latina actress.'

Sara Ramirez

#3. " ... light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect."

Harry Reid

#4. When I came to America, that's when I started to feel that there was a lot of push-back from women. I was definitely made aware that I am light-skinned. I realized that was a thing here.

Grace Gealey

#5. I knew when I wrote the line "light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson" [from the song "Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.

Kanye West

#6. In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

Juan Williams

#7. I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.

Chance The Rapper

#8. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates, Mr. Obama was 'light-skinned' and lacked a 'Negro dialect.'

Monica Crowley

#9. (Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama - a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

Harry Reid

#10. It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.

Ryan Lochte

#11. Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson,
Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson.

Kanye West

#12. As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.

Daniel Sunjata

#13. As for them pretty light-skinned models standin in the cold, ah yeah they with us.

Drake

#14. The stars could fall - the moon could crash from the heavens - and Mariko could not care.

Renee Ahdieh

#15. Please leave me something ... even one memory would be enough.

Ai Yazawa

#16. Jealousy likes photos, that's why instagram is such a hit.

Parul Sehgal

#17. Some people aren't really light-teethed; they're merely dark-skinned.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#18. Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable.

William Strunk Jr.

#19. Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

William J. Clinton

#20. You're a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half.

Shaun Hick

#21. I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.

Hillary Clinton

#22. My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Tracy Letts

#23. I refuse to charge for my karate classes, I refuse to charge for Q&A panels, and when people come to my table, if you have money, great, but if you don't, who cares?

Jason David Frank