My Melanin Quotes

#1. Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

Zadie Smith

#2. If I venture into the water in a bikini, the sight of my melanin-deficient Michigan belly might attract beluga whales. Sure, I could secretly live among them and learn their ancient ways, but I couldn't keep that kind of ruse up forever.

Jennifer Armintrout

#3. Ole boy's melanin was so popping I bet he sweats coconut oil.

B. Love

#4. Or it's happening because Shori is black, and racists - probably Ina racists - don't like the idea that a good part of the answer to your daytime problems is melanin.

Octavia E. Butler

#5. I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Henry Rollins

#6. Actually, I am kind of busy right now," I drawled as I settled back into the chair and closed my eyes. "You have to make melanin while the sun shines.

Kim Harrison

#7. We see through the eyes of children that they're not talking about race the way we grown folks are. They're not talking about color or how much melanin is in someone's skin.

John Boyega

#8. more clearly you can picture the results you want, the more likely you are to deliver the performance that produces those results.

Roger Seip

#9. My family is like America; we are a blend of melanin and uncertain borders.

R. YS Perez

#10. I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

Jonah Goldberg

#11. One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

Franklin A. Thomas

#12. Our melanin will always make us marvelous ...
Just imagine what that sea of sisterhood would look like. Magic!

Alexandra Elle

#13. Were it not for the melanin in our skin, myoglobin in our muscles and haemoglobin in our blood, we would be the colour of mitochondria. And, if this were so, we would change colour when we exercised or ran out of breath, so that you could tell how energized someone was from his or her colour.

Guy Brown

#14. What scared him more than anything else was an old age spent simply waiting to die, a time when nothing of what had been his life was still possible.

Henning Mankell

#15. All I can say is practice, you never know what you might do.

Soraya Jimenez

#16. Love and wisdom must govern our speech and how we hear the words of others.

Anonymous

#17. I think the reason I went into theater, ultimately, was because that was one of multicultural groups. Because you identify with other people that share similar passions to you, so it didn't matter how much melanin was in their skin.

Keegan-Michael Key

#18. Fitness plays such an important role in my life, and an integral part of my golf structure, that I think I might be quite good at teaching others the benefits of sport and fitness.

Rory McIlroy

#19. Melanin Fiercely Poppin' on Purpose.

Stephanie Lahart

#20. The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.

Victoria Mahoney

#21. Your beauty will be in shades of melanin and light.

R. YS Perez

#22. Dying is not in synonymous with Useless

Mitch Albom