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“If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.”

Ifs Doe Stills Matter Would Be America Young Particular Color Advantage Skins Privilege Tone Wheels Celebration Whiteness Skin Tone Color Wheel

Author:Eric Liu

“You would think that Freddy Couples-Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time.”

Thinking Matter Would Be Team Couple Beats Skins Hitting Right Time

Author:Fuzzy Zoeller

“Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.”

World Humor Would Be Funny Impossible Prove Skins Twenties Champion Pace Theologian Chimpanzees Gorillas Heavyweights Autopsy

Author:H. L. Mencken

“One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would be only skin-deep. Popular culture often provides a window into the subliminal or unstated fears of citizens, and zombies are no exception. Some cultural commentators argue that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are a primary cause for renewed interest in the living dead, and the numbers appear to back up this assertion.”

“Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not threaten, at least as far as the British at home were concerned. Bestowing freedom upon them seemed therefore purely an act of humanity and will, an achievement that would be to Great Britain's economic detriment, perhaps, but would have few other domestic consequences.”

Stills Different Home Would Be Humanity Economic Achievement Consequence Concerned Skins Died Slave British Colour Britain Great Britain British History Britons

Author:Linda Colley

“For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.”

Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals

“To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.”

Feels Self Would Be Skins Prejudice

Author:Sir Fulke Greville

“We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.”

Would Be Heaven Economic Capitalism Skins Crisis Teeth Survived Wrath Economic Crisis Deluge

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.”

Would Be Easy Half Skins Acquire Skin Deep

Author:Ezra Pound

“Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure.”

People Thinking Ideas Would Be Used Actors Common Percent Skins Performances Yeah Rejection Thick Thread Great Idea Billionaire Thick Skin Common Threads

Author:Dax Shepard

“Adoption was something that was always under my skin, that I knew would be a part of my life, and, when I decided to start filing, it was very clear. It was like I knew that this was exactly what it needed to be. So then you go through the process, and it's tough. It's not the easiest process - and then again, I've never liked things too easy in life. But it emotionally knocks you out.”

Would Be Easy Process Clear Needed Tough Decided Skins Adoption Filing

Author:Kristen Stewart

“If there's a message to pass to people, I'd say that it's normal to be different from others, it's good to differ from one another, and we'd better look at ourselves first before we start criticising someone who looks, acts, speaks different or has a different skin colour. I'd like to continue, even at a minimal level, what John Lennon had started. If I could do as much as a bit of what he did, if I could contribute to the elimination of hatred among us, that would be a great deal.”

People Ifs Firsts Looks Different Would Be Speak Bits Levels Deals Normal Messages Hatred Skins Colour If I Could Elimination Lennon

Author:Johnny Depp

“My biggest beauty tip would be exfoliation, exfoliation, exfoliation! After a lifetime of almost no breakouts, I learned that if you don't exfoliate, your skin has a hard time shedding the old skin and therefore clogs your pores and causes zits.”

Ifs Hard Would Be Causes Skins Lifetime Hard Times Zits

Author:Amanda Crew

“If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?”

Ifs Want Children Would Be School Enjoy Dark Changed Color Skins Vote Available Officials Restaurants Lunch Delay Public School Public Officials Free Life

Author:John F. Kennedy

“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.”

“Running unites us and brings us together because, in the words of the great Bill Rogers, "We sweat the same. We struggle the same." Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. for it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race. Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.”

“Because we lack sharp claws, aren't very fast on our feet, and aren't exactly endowed with lightning reflexes, it would be very difficult if not impossible for us to run down an animal, catch it with our bare hands, and tear through its fur and skin in order to eat it. Biologically, we are designed to be frugivorous herbivores eating mainly fruits, seeds, roots, and leaves.”

Ifs Hands Would Be Running Order Difficult Animal Impossible Feet Tears Eating Roots Skins Fruit Seeds Lightning Fur Claws Reflexes

Author:Sharon Gannon

“If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.”

Ifs Would Be Attention Color Right Now Skins Barack

Author:John H. McWhorter

“Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to define it and its implications. But there are basic things such as skin color and hair texture. Even a Martian who'd had no exposure to human "social constructs" would be able to spot those differences. But no Martian, as hard as he tried, could point at a "culture" or to "equality." Those are the social constructs. Those can't be measured in the same way as human DNA.”

Way Humans Hard Would Be Able Culture Given Social Easy Differences Race Color Hair Skins Spots Constructs Dna Exposure Implications Texture Skin Color Martians Basic Things

Author:Jim Goad

“My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.”

Ifs Would Be Beautiful Skins Jail

Author:Gene Simmons

“My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.”

Ifs Said Would Be Wanted Tree My Family Skins Making Love Supportive Bark Bananas Martians Ashtrays Supportive Family

Author:Casey Affleck

“I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and... Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning.”

Ifs Would Be Justice Walks Morning Gone Terrible Skins Terror Shed Heartless Gone Away

Book:Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

Source: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

“Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up”

Light Would Be Eye Sea Skins Blue Green Shining Fishes Currents Flesh Tiny Thick Shells Merry Exotic Mermaid Underwater Fingernails Seaweed Jade Shining Through

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!”

Source: The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

“Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.”

Source: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

“We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”

Would Be Humanity Willing Brother Prove Skins Equality Criminal Mind Prove It

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“Grace. I held on to that name. If I kept that in my head, I would be OK. Grace. I was shaking, shaking; my skin peeling away. Grace. My bones squeezed, pinched, pressed against my muscles. Grace. Her eyes held me even after I stopped feeling her fingers gripping my arms. Sam," she said. "Don't go.”

Ifs Said Feelings Would Be Eye Names Grace Arms Skins Fingers Bones Muscles Her Eyes Shaking Gripping Peeling

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.”

Would Be Night Middle Needed Quiet Skins Breaths Meetings Lips Pale Petals Middle Of The Night

Book:Mortal Danger

Source: Mortal Danger

“Alek was right behind her now, his body pressing close as he adjusted her sword arm. She hadn't realized this fencing business would be so touchy. He grasped her waist, sending a crackle across her skin. If Alek moved his hands any higher, he might notice what was hidden beneath her careful tailoring. “Always keep sideways to your opponent,” he said, gently turning her. “That way, your chest presents the smallest possible target.” “Aye, the smallest possible target,” Deryn sighed. Her secret was safe, it seemed.”

Ifs Way Said Body Hands Might Would Be Secret Behinds Arms Higher Safe Skins Moved Careful Opponents Target Chests Smallest Sideways Touchy Fencing

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.”

Littles Would Be Clothes Understood Skins Dating Staying Items Grapes Slippery Triangles Undressing

Author:Aimee Bender

“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

“The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it.”

Way Feels Body Would Be Used Night Realizing Grief Cold Happenings Standing Skins Opposites Endure Winter Warm Heat Warmth Draining Winter Night Body Heat

Author:Rob Sheffield

“As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.”

Soul Stories Body Would Be Written Wind Becoming Paper Pages Skins Hot Surface Dry Fables Crawling Papyrus

Author:Salman Rushdie

“She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love.”

Men Sometimes Enough Dream Would Be Kids Age Wanted Desire Strong Felt Married Daughter Red Skins Wake Up Necks Desperation Strong Enough Being Married Wrists Gowns Lace Grooming

Book:The Peach Keeper: A Novel

Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel

“The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square, I would be all right, but it was hard to ignore the black squares that surrounded the white ones. The contrast got under my skin. The floor meant yes, no, this, that, up, down, day, night -all the indecisions and opposites that were bad enough in life without having them spelled out for you on the floor.”

Ifs Hard Enough Would Be Night Black White Skins Opposites Bigger Ice Squares Contrast Black And White Cream Ice Cream Bothered Supermarkets Indecision Parlor Tiles Day Night

Author:Susanna Kaysen

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