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“In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!”

Persons Country Dark Clear Hair Skins Slave Lips Thick Corn Grind Stoops Kinky Aristocratic Dark Skin Kinky Hair

Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam

“But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony, and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever their continent, their class, their color.”

Knows Mean Light Form Given Nations Dark Poor Powerful Class Rich Color Weak Skins Continents Colonialism Exploitation Consent Colony Subjugation Dark Skin

Author:John F. Kennedy

“If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is "black" or "white." I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race.”

Ifs Writing May Persons Eye Black Dark White Race Fiction Talking Color Skins Blue Appearance Etc Not Talking Blue Eyes Black Or White Black Eyes Physical Appearance Dark Skin

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.”

Bigs Young Dark Worst Skins Lips Noses Wretched Big Nose Dark Skin

Author:Nate Parker

“When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?" I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn't get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn't hearing this from my immediate family - my mother never said anything to that effect - but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.”

Said Jobs Remember Faces Mother Parent Voice Dark Teacher Seeing Effects Television Husband Messages Skins Hearing Interviews Grades Cream Immediate Family Dark Skin

Author:Lupita Nyong'o

“Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.”

“Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.”

Hard Universe Stars Dark Skins Sparks Dark Skin

Book:The Stand

Source: The Stand

“The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter.”

Hands Bigs Eye Faces Spirit Black Dark White Secret Doors Mines Keys Laughter Skins Wide Teeth Heat Flash Stretching Kindred Black Eyes Kindred Spirit White Teeth Dark Skin Secret Doors

Book:Eclipse

Source: Eclipse

“Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.”

Children Ends Would Be Night Waiting Dark Skins Each Day Tranquility Transfers Colorful Timelessness Unreality Dark Skin

Book:The best of Gerald Durrell

Source: The best of Gerald Durrell