Sue Monk Kidd Quotes About Skins

Quotes about: Skins

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

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Thinking, Skin Color, Skins

• I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing our skin," he said. "Change the world-that's how we gotta think."

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Girl, Thinking, Skins

  Sue Monk Kidd (2002). “The Secret Life of Bees”, Viking Press

• At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around the room, making that propeller sound, a high-pitched zzzzzz that hummed along my skin. I watched their wings shining like bits of chrome in the dark and felt the longing build in my chest. The way those bees flew, not even looking for a flower, just flying for the feel of the wind, split my heart down its seam.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Wall, Lying, Flower

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

• I felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was practically radiating. The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Long, Mind, Skins

  Sue Monk Kidd (2002). “The Secret Life of Bees”, Viking Press

• In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Skins, Skin And Bones, Stories

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