Skin Quotes
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She had looked in the mirror a million times and only saw the brown of her skin and not the magic flowing beneath it.
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Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.
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Our skin is what stands between us and the world.
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I want your hand without the skin. Bone to bone without the molds. Mouth to mouth, without the porn.
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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
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I think that it is important that one grows a thick skin fast in this business, and I think we have done that.
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Skin care is so important, and I'm the craziest person about it.
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It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me, I would shine.But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life,I skin my knees. I bleed.
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No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
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I understand that it's a volatile environment. Certainly I have tough enough skin, so have at it. There's no way to properly answer that question so I won't try.
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I love romance. I think our skin clears up and we're nicer when you are in love.
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Not caring what people think about you is so much easier said than done and I think that it's easy to be in school and kind of compare yourself to everybody else, you might think that you're weird because some people don't like you or because you just dont feel like you belong in your own skin in your school and I think that it's important to realize that there's absolutely nothing wrong with you you're worth so much. As time progresses you'll see that and you have to learn to love yourself and accept yourself because its your skin.
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If people wanted to fight me-because of my hair or because my skin was too dark-then I fought them...
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Since the soul in me is dead, Better save the skin.
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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
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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.
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If I'm not comfortable in my own skin or confident in who I am, then I'm going to pick parts based on how people are going to view them, not based on what I find challenging or entertaining.
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Tommy Lee Jones doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very direct and very honest. I don't have thin skin so I'm okay with that.
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The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.
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It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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She was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.
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It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
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What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
