“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.” IfsDoeStillsMatterWould BeAmericaYoungParticularColorAdvantageSkinsPrivilegeToneWheelsCelebrationWhitenessSkin ToneColor Wheel Author:Eric Liu
“It is still your work or role that finally gives you your definition in our society, and the thousands upon thousands of people who I believe are like me are those who have never found the professional skin to fit the riot in their souls .” PeopleGivingBelieveStillsSoulFoundI BelieveRolesFitSkinsDefinitionsLike MeOur SocietyRiot Book:What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim Source: What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim
“I still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper.” LoveMeanMadeStillsProblemAgeHairRootsSkinsManagementShoesConvincedIntensityInchesAnger Management Book:True Source: True
“Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.” StillsFeelingsDesireFeltNaturalStrangeComfortableNewsUnderstoodSkinsEnvySensesVanityEnjoyedScarDirtIntriguingStill In LoveNew Feelings Author:Jim Morrison
“How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.” IfsKnowsMenStillsAbleDarkSkinsSevenShellsSeventiesHaresSlough Book:Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations
“The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race - the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.” MenMindHumansStillsSpiritualFormFatherRaceMinesColorBrotherPrideBearsSkinsAcceptedFeaturesSpiteImmortalMakersPrisonerImpressedInheritanceBe A ManApprovedYour BrotherNot Impressed Author:William H. Seward
“Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope... Barack Hussein Obama did not win because of the color of his skin. Nor did he win in spite of it. He won because at a very dangerous moment in the life of a still young country, more people than have ever spoken before came together to try to save it. And that was a victory all its own.” PeopleTryingStillsCountryMomentsTogetherYoungWinningBornImaginationDangerousColorVictorySkinsBarackSpiteHusseinPalacesScrap Author:Nancy Gibbs