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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.

  • 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.

    Land   Umpires   White  
    Guardian Weekly, London, April 8, 1984.
  • 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.

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

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

    Years   Land   Racism  
    The Guardian, April 8, 1984.
  • I don't care what color your hair is, if you're pale or tan, if you have makeup on or just woke up all I care about is that when I look at you, you always look back and see me. You're beautiful inside and out and if you wanted to tattoo all that pretty white skin from head to toe I would be honored to put it there for you but if not I'll take you all smooth and milky white any chance I get.

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

  • 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.

    Country   Fighting   Men  
  • 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.

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

    Dirty   Cities   Paris  
  • 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

    Eye   White   Lovely  
  • 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

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

    Beautiful   Race   White  
    Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.63
  • I'm basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white skin, I have acne scars and I'm five-foot-nothing. Does that sound like a real sexual dynamo to you?

    Real   White   Feet  
  • 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 (1913). “Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform”
  • 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.

    Beach   White   Hair  
  • 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.

    Dark   Sky   White  
  • The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions as outpacing scientific management among U.S. innovations where bossing was concerned. Amidst the general miseries of proletarianization, workers also learned that one source of meager benefits and protections could lie in claiming a white skin.

    War   Lying   White  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to people of white skin.... The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me.

    Pain   White   People  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.312, Princeton University Press
  • Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

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

    Real   Thinking   White  
  • 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.

    Men   Thinking   White  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

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

    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.
  • 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 (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.329, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Smooth white skin invites something that will leave a trace, a kiss or a slap.

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

    Dark   White   Rocks  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents.

    Gay   Men   White  
    Source: www.cnn.com
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