Dark Skinned Quotes

• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.

  Langston Hughes

  Dark, Artist, White

  Langston Hughes (1995). “Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62”, p.5, University of Illinois Press

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• Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

  Pam Grier

  Dark, African American, Black

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• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

  Langston Hughes

  Beautiful, Strong, Dark

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.36, University of Missouri Press

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• Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson,
  Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson.

  Kanye West

  Song, Rap, Dark

  Song: Slow Jamz, Album: The College Dropout, 2004

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• Hubo un tiempo en que todos los pueblos de piel oscura se llamaban etíopes, porque los griegos se referían a África como "la tierra de los cara quemada".

  John Henrik Clarke

  Dark, Land, People

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• I wanted to touch on how we look on each other. Good hair, light skin, you must be smart; if you're black, you're dark-skinned, you're ugly. That really happens. This is something that started with slavery, when they divided the house, and it's still a part of today's society and things that we battle with.

  Rapsodia

  Smart, Dark, Light

  Fuente: www.mtv.com

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• I am a dark-skinned, nappy-headed, scar-faced dude from the streets of Brooklyn. I can't hide from being who I am. It's all over my face.

  Michael K. Williams

  Dark, Who I Am, Brooklyn

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  Sueño con que mis cuatro hijos pequeños vivan algún día en una nación donde no se les juzgue por el color de su piel, sino por el contenido de su carácter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sueño, Reyes, Niños

  Discurso en la Marcha por los Derechos Civiles, Washington, D.C., 28 de agosto de 1963

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• It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.

  Ryan Lochte

  Girl, Fighting, Dark

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• Ya sea de chocolate o de vainilla, o te encuentres en algún punto intermedio,
  un moca capuchino o una reina de caramelo,
  Rechazado por el negro, no aceptado por el mundo blanco,
  Y esto está dedicado a las blancas de piel oscura.

  MURS

  Chica, Queens, Rap

  Song: Dark Skinned White Girl

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• Mi madre era una mujer. Una mujer negra. Una madre soltera. Criando sola a dos hijos. Así que era de piel oscura. Tenía el pelo corto. No recibía amor de nadie excepto de un grupo llamado Panteras Negras. Por eso era una Pantera Negra.

  Tupac Shakur

  Mother, Kids, Dark

  Fuente: blankonblank.org

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• Tengo la piel gruesa por ser una mujer india de piel oscura y no muy delgada. No he encajado en todos los sitios, así que estoy acostumbrada a la resistencia.

  Mindy Kaling

  Dark, Skins, Resistance

  "El lado divertido del amor". Entrevista con Emma Rosenblum, nymag.com. 19 de septiembre de 2010.

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• Soy una mujer negra que es de Central Falls, Rhode Island. Soy de piel oscura. Soy estrafalaria. Soy tímida. Soy fuerte. Soy reservada. A veces débil. Soy sensual. No soy abiertamente sexual. Soy tantas cosas de tantas maneras y nunca me veré en la pantalla. Y la razón por la que nunca me veré en pantalla es porque eso no se traduce con ser negra.

  Viola Davis

  Strong, Fall, Dark

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• A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?

  Jane Yolen

  Children, Book, Dark

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• The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

  James Fenton

  Dark, Long, Racism

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• The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems, dark-skinned people, non-English-speakers, immigrants; all Catholics, fundamentalists, atheists; all liberals, all conservatives...For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Suicide, Atheist, Stars

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.191, Macmillan

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• Kids made fun of me because I was dark skinned, had a wide nose, and was dyslexic. Even as an actor, it took me a long time to realize why words and letters got jumbled in my mind and came out differently.

  Danny Glover

  Fun, Kids, Dark

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• When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Fashion, Jobs, Nice

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• Lo que hace especialmente odioso al Southern Poverty Law Center es su costumbre de mezclar conservadores legítimos con auténticos grupos de odio (el Ku Klux Klan, la Nación Aria, los cabezas rapadas, etc.), para hacer creer que existe una relación lógica entre, por ejemplo, la oposición a la discriminación positiva y los linchamientos, o las peticiones de que se ponga fin a los servicios gubernamentales para los extranjeros ilegales y los ataques a los inmigrantes de piel oscura. El difunto novelista y filósofo Ayn Rand lo llamaba "el desprestigio de brocha gorda".

  Don Feder

  Odio, Oscuridad, Gobierno

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• A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.

  Charles Stross

  Dark, Skulls, Four

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.9, Penguin

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• Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Children, Military, Dark

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• After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

  Cat Stevens

  Brother, Dark, People

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• Esto jugará a favor de Obama. Es humanitario, compasivo. Usarán esto para pulir su, digamos, "credibilidad" con la comunidad negra - tanto en la comunidad negra de piel clara como en la de piel oscura en este país. Está hecho a su medida. Por eso no podía esperar a salir ahí, no podía esperar a salir ahí.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Stupid, Dark

  "Obama Leaps into Action on Haiti". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. January 13, 2010.

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