White Skin Quotes

• I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote...

  Desmond Tutu

  Years, Land, Racism

  The Guardian, April 8, 1984.

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• Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Race, White

  Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.63

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• Smooth white skin invites something that will leave a trace, a kiss or a slap.

  Mason Cooley

  Kissing, White, Skins

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• We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents.

  Charlize Theron

  Gay, Men, White

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.

  Vanessa Marano

  Dark, White, Rocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter

  Marilyn Monroe

  Real, Thinking, White

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• My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

  Robin Morgan

  Freedom, Agony, White

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.

  Roman Baldorioty de Castro

  Dark, Sky, White

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• Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

  Teena Marie

  Artist, White, Race

  "Teena Marie, Known as 'Ivory Queen of Soul,' Dies", www.foxnews.com. December 27, 2010.

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• Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

  Karl Marx

  White, Long, Black

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• I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Class, White, Skins

  c.1915 Remark made during a visit of front-line British troops in World War I, after observing some of them bathing in old beer barrels.

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• When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Appreciation, Spring

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• [Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

  Albert Camus

  Dirty, Cities, Paris

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• She took a bad tumble. Those are some nasty bruises she's carrying," the maid said with a sad shake of the head. "Aye," Cullen agreed, his eyes traveling over lovely, milky white skin, interrupted by several black bruises. "She looks like a cow." Mildrede turned a horrified gaze on him at the comment, but he was more concerned by the choked sound that came from his bride. He really hadn't meant it as an insult, but it seemed the women were taking it so. "I just meant the coloring," Cullen muttered

  Lynsay Sands

  Eye, White, Lovely

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• In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, Umpires, White

  Guardian Weekly, London, April 8, 1984.

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• I'M INTROSPECTIVE, because sometimes I want to take "our" side without looking at the facts in situations like these. Sometimes I feel like it's us against them. Sometimes I'm just as prejudiced as people I point fingers at. And that's not right. How can I look at white skin and make assumptions but not want assumptions made about me? That's not right.

  Benjamin Watson

  White, Racism, People

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.16, NavPress

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• [To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

  Helen Suzman

  Civilization, White, Skins

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• There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs shall bow down and become its servants.

  Annie Besant

  Country, White Privilege, Land

  Annie Besant (1913). “Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform”

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• Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much myself. Did I not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Thinking, White, Justice

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of values”, Harcourt

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• Whiteness is not a culture . . . Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position . . . . Without the privileges attached to it, the white race would not exist, and the white skin would have no more social significance than big feet

  Noel Ignatiev

  Race, White, Feet

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• And this presence of the Spirit will enlighten not only yellow skin people or white skin people but even black skin people. I believe in the last days the Spirit of God will be poured out in the nations of Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Because Jesus Christ is the Lord. Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Universe. Amen.

  Brother Yun

  Jesus, Believe, Buddhism

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• With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.

  Marcia Cross

  Beach, White, Hair

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• We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be exploited by imperialists not only by people with white skin, because we do not confuse exploitation or exploiters with the colour of men's skins; we do not want any exploitation in our countries, not even by black people.

  Amilcar Cabral

  Country, Fighting, Men

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• In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.

  Karl Marx

  Independent, White, America

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.329, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.

  James McAvoy

  Men, Thinking, White

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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