Skin Quotes
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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
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The country has double standards - it's obsessed with fair skin on one hand, but if the woman is white, she is expected to be loose-moraled.
Kalki Koechlin
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
Herodotus
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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.
Arthur Mitchell
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Guacamole is really healthy. It's really good for your skin.
Millie Bobby Brown
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I was darker than he was. And I’m not just talking about our skin coloring. He told me I had a tragic vision of life. “That’s why you like Spider-Man.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.
Sarah Waters
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Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
Gautama Buddha
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No, you cannot use something that is degrading to the colour of my skin for me to take it as banter. I will never agree to that.
Darren Sammy
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The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.
Andrew Forge
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We can never see who someone really is underneath the skin.
Sarah Pinborough
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I have as much pink as you can have. I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.
Evelyn Lauder