Quotes About Skin Color

#1. The beauty of the infantry is its ability to truly teach tolerance. At the lowest level, when it is simply a matter of survival to count on everyone around you, regardless of religion or skin color, the only logical option is to ignore the differences.

Adam Fenner

#2. Skin color doesn't make you different,' Melody said. 'We're all the same on the inside.' 'The only people who ever say that,' Raymon replied, 'are white.

Jodi Picoult

#3. We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.

Bell Hooks

#4. There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn't make us all the same. But it did affect us. It had to.

Kelly J. Cogswell

#5. I personally think my sister is so stunning without makeup. And she doesn't wear that much makeup because she has the best skin color.

Gigi Hadid

#6. Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

Alveda King

#7. The sway in Mala's waist, the curve of her hip beneath the folds of her sari, have caught the eye of many young men, each of whom is secretly willing to denounce the colonial prejudice of skin color by falling in love with her.

Nayomi Munaweera

#8. Besides, skin color was skin color, right? It was just the color of your goddamned skin. There was nothing anybody could do about that. You were born with it. Like some people were born with big feet or blue eyes. You didn't make the choice. Your parents did. Or God did.

Pete Hamill

#9. I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.

Khloe Kardashian

#10. The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#11. I have huge admiration for people who think like the effective altruist, who try to rationally think about how they can change the world for the better, and who try not to be swayed by irrational considerations, such as skin color or whether or not someone lives in the same neighborhood.

Paul Bloom

#12. Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

Adam McKay

#13. The fact that my skin color hadn't been an issue for those early years of schooling says everything about where racism originates: it is a cultural issue, a societal and familial problem that children soak up as they become more aware of the world. But

Maajid Nawaz

#14. If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

Jon Meacham

#15. Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family, or what his skin color is. Anybody can make money.

Takafumi Horie

#16. I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.

Issa Rae

#17. Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.

Marianne Williamson

#18. We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white.

Kevin DeYoung

#19. Nor did she believe in identity, certainly not the local nationalistic version of it. She said that man was only smart if he was able to shed his identity.

"Skin color is a little hard to shed," she said, "it's true. But the DNA of your social class is even harder to get rid of.

Sayed Kashua

#20. Take that one thing you don't like about yourself and more often than not that's the one thing that makes you more special. Whether it's that gap in your teeth, or that mole you never liked, or your skin color.

Shay Mitchell

#21. I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

J. C. Watts

#22. My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.

Natalie Portman

#23. Two people pass each other. As one looks upon the other's skin color, the other is looking back at their appearance. Both justifying, how better and righteous they are, in their own insecurities.

Anthony Liccione

#24. We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.

Sue Monk Kidd

#25. The secret to financial success is to be more familiar with your money and yourself than your own skin color.

Sammy Coons

#26. Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.

Ricardo Montalban

#27. Men may make progress, but man never changes. Man loves power and money. No matter the skin color, religion or income level. These symbols of our nation make men drunk with power, who then justify their lust for more by claiming they are public servants.

Glenn Beck

#28. The trouble with wars is that they all look alike to people who aren't involved. Only the skin color of the dead is different.

Jonathan Carroll

#29. People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.
But if that's true, why do they always find us?

David Levithan

#30. I just can't conceive of how a person could hate another because of skin color. I love every race on the planet earth.

Michael Jackson

#31. I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#32. Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

Dave Brubeck

#33. Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.

T.F. Hodge

#34. As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

Omari Hardwick

#35. Different skin color and same blood color is something that most people don't know, they don't know because arrogance make them racist and ignorant.

Werley Nortreus

#36. When I was, like, 5 years old, I used to pray to have light skin because I would always hear how pretty that little light skin girl was, or I would hear I was pretty to be dark skin. It wasn't until I was 13 that I really learned to appreciate my skin color and know that I was beautiful.

Keke Palmer

#37. Some parts of the genome with a high frequency of Neanderthal variants shape hair and skin color and likely made the first Eurasians lighter-skinned than their African ancestors.

Christine Kenneally

#38. Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

James Lankford

#39. Redheads are a variant that survived, a color minority, though not a skin color precisely, not a race, but still subject to identification by the wary eyes and wagging tongues of the majority.

Marion Roach

#40. I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color ... that's immature.

ASAP Rocky

#41. Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while in office, not for his skin color. I certainly believe he has the capacity.

Lenny Kravitz

#42. In the past, we used to discriminate on the basis of skin color and gender (and still do at times), but now with elective abortion, we discriminate on the basis of size, level of development, location, and degree of dependency. We've simply swapped one form of bigotry for another.

Scott Klusendorf

#43. In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.

Matt Groening

#44. It was around this time that I started thinking about how skin color defined class. The cowboy movies that fueled the goodness of 'White' reinforced attaching 'darkness' to a class. I finally took notice that the crayon color called 'flesh' did not match mine.

Luis Quiros

#45. Viewpoints and skin color don't matter to the Savior. He brought salvation to all manking.

Andrea Boeshaar

#46. Skin color is basically a measure of the local ultraviolet levels, and it is controlled by relatively minor adaptive changes in the genome.

Bill Nye

#47. Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.

Luvvie Ajayi

#48. You are the light I crave, at times you are what makes my skin color change, you provide me with a ray of hope, the feeling of home and an occasional feeling of pain. But You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, the only source of light I need.

Patrick Stevens

#49. Being white also put Drast in the minority, but in 2098 skin color wasn't the issue it had once been for the world. There had been much blending. The majority of people were a varied and lovely light shade of brown. The

Brandt Legg

#50. There is something wrong with the world if I'm writing a book outside and people think I'm planning an attack due to my skin color.

Daniel Marques

#51. For excellent health and a good skin color, I recommend that people sit next to a shady ultraviolet transmitting window when indoors.

Steven Magee

#52. Because beauty will be so readily accessible, and skin color and features will be similar, prejudices based on physical features will be nearly eradicated. Prejudice will be socioeconomically based.

Tyra Banks

#53. Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.

Gabourey Sidibe

#54. We are each unique ... which is why it is so wrong to be lumped together by stereotypes or viewed with narrowed expectations based on skin color or chromosomes. The irony is that dealing with this prejudice becomes our shared experience.

Sheryl Sandberg

#55. I grew up feeling people didn't look at skin color.

Chris Froome

#56. It is true that our skin is sort of more or less the same shade. But is it true that our skin color makes us a distinctive race? No.

Jamaica Kincaid

#57. I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person.

Patrick Henry Hughes

#58. I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.

Richard Rodriguez

#59. It occurs to me that Jude does this too, changes who she is depending on who she's with. They're like toads changing their skin color. How come I'm always just me?

Jandy Nelson

#60. One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

Mark Twain

#61. I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

Annie Ilonzeh

#62. The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter.

Ben Shapiro

#63. Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

Riccardo Tisci

#64. As Christina held my hand and Ms. Mina held Mama's, there was a moment - one heartbeat, one breath - where all the differences in schooling and money and skin color evaporated like mirages in a desert. Where everyone was equal, and it was just one woman, helping another. That

Jodi Picoult

#65. I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white, every last one is pretty pink on the inside and they are all impossible.

Peter Matthiessen

#66. So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

Jesse Jackson

#67. That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

Hans Kung

#68. Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.

Randall Kennedy

#69. A pixie's true skin color is blue. Cookie Monster, Grover, and other lovable Muppets are also blue. Do not confuse the two. Muppets don't kill you. Usually.

Carrie Jones

#70. There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

Malala Yousafzai

#71. I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

J. C. Watts

#72. In Black Like Me, I tried to establish one simple fact, which was to reveal the insanity of a situation where a man is judged by his skin color, by his philosophical "accident" - rather than by who he is in his humanity.

John Howard Griffin

#73. When I got married, my marriage was illegal in 17 states because my husband had a different skin color than I did. And we saw those laws go down one at a time.

Tyne Daly

#74. I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

Angelique Kidjo

#75. A lot of the exercise of embracing identity as a political affirmation is not just simply parked in the question of skin color or culture, but more it is a political affirmation with all these implications and more.

Bocafloja

#76. The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

Reggie Jackson

#77. Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.

John D. MacDonald

#78. My spray-tan woman is amazing. She comes to my house at 10 o'clock the night before a shoot. The results are so brown, flawless, and natural. It's just weird because my natural skin color is very white, almost whitish yellow.

Christine Teigen

#79. It's wrong to discriminate based on skin color when there are so many other reasons not to like someone.

Dennis Miller

#80. Sure, being good at your job is really important, but in acting, so much of the decision's already made the minute you walk in the room because they're like, 'His hair's good or she's got the right skin color' or whatever. It's so random, but it's so physically oriented.

Rashida Jones

#81. This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color.

Toni Morrison

#82. Despite my height, ignorance, heartbreaks, insecurity, criticism, competition, my skin color, that voice in my head that says 'No way', bad luck, a tight budget, insults, fear, flaws, failure and opposition. I believe in myself.

Manasa Rao

#83. Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and understanding. It seemed as if the dream of a color-blind society was within reach in the jazz world, where musicians were judged on merit and not skin color.

Randy Sandke

#84. I've stayed away from doing 'urban film' because I just don't relate to the characters. I'm not going to take a role because I happen to have the same skin color.

Zoe Kravitz

#85. You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.

Angelique Kidjo

#86. In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

Eric S. Raymond

#87. I can't understand
why dark northern soldiers
and light ones
are seperated into different brigades.
The dead are all buried together
in hasty mass graves,
bones touching.

Margarita Engle

#88. I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, people will be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#89. If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is "black" or "white." I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race.

Jamaica Kincaid

#90. yet that one thing - the color of their skin - would, in the real world, change everything. Sarai

Laini Taylor

#91. Like the color of one's skin, the shape of one's genitals is a neutral biological fact that acquires meaning from society, which prides or devalues certain biological differences.

Richard Caldwell

#92. A person's disposition should serve as a narrative of their lives not the pigmentation of their skin.

Henry Johnson Jr

#93. Whether you want it or not,
your genes have a political past,
your skin a political tone.
your eyes a political color.
...
you walk with political steps
on political ground.

Wislawa Szymborska

#94. There are people who were gay and lived the gay lifestyle and aren't anymore. I don't know if that's the similar situation or that's the case for anyone that's black. It's a behavioral issue as opposed to a color of the skin issue, and that's the diff for serving in the military.

Rick Santorum

#95. Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, ...

Martin Luther King Jr.

#96. What's your favorite color?" he whispered against my skin as though he were asking a highly intimate question. "Blue." "Like the ocean or the sky?" "Like your eyes." He turned me

Alyssa Rose Ivy

#97. Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them.

Michael Dolan

#98. When the house is on fire, do you argue the color of the skin of the man who brings the water?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#99. Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.

Dean Karnazes

#100. Did the color of his skin matter? No, Lina decided, wouldn't his racial ambiguity be a strength? Wasn't this a history from which they had all emerged, every American, black and white and every shade in between?

Tara Conklin