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There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'
— John Henrik Clarke
If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?
— Zora Neale Hurston
Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.
— Barack Obama
When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.
— Jimmy Durante
A minister who is much before the public has need to be thick skinned, and to exercise to a very high degree the virtue of longsuffering.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
— Octavia E. Butler
Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus.
— John Fugelsang
There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.
— Tamara Ecclestone
No soft-skinned, lace-covered, dandified profligate would ever take this house and make it his.Ever. — Karen Hawkins
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
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
Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince.
— Cassandra Clare
As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy
— George Mackay Brown
The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contraryhow to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive? — Montgomery Clift
Those pinked-skinned Jesus freaks that made the laws and owned the prisons were makin' more money off the drug game than we ever did.
— Connor Pritchard
The Skinned Men kill again.
— C.K. Walker
Above his olive-skinned neck a Low Dark Fade they call it at the barber's school where I go for a $4.99 haircut and an experience.
— Joseph McElroy
Seemed to myself to be dull, boring, inadequate, thick brained, unlit, unresponsive, chill skinned, bloodless, and sparrow drab.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
And there's another thing, too - it don't hurt when you chip me about it. Thick-skinned and tenderhearted, that's my mixture.
— James Hilton
The woman standing there is in a crisp admiral's uniform. She's dark-skinned, with cold brown eyes to match.
— Chuck Wendig
I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.
— Chance The Rapper
" ... light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect."
— Harry Reid
Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.
— Danielle Steel
Robin Wasserman is the author of several books, including 'Hacking Harvard,' 'Chasing Yesterday,' 'Seven Deadly Sins,' and her latest, 'Skinned.'
— John Joseph Adams
And, in her fury, she slapped the king with a skinned eel.
— Bernard Cornwell
Like most thin-skinned people who have been snubbed, he could not leave the snubbers alone.
— M.C. Beaton
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Some people aren't really light-teethed; they're merely dark-skinned.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
She sometimes wished she was more thick-skinned, so that she could see nothing, feel nothing.
— Kavita Kane
When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.
— Lee Daniels
In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.
— Juan Williams
I'm thin-skinned in a way that's just dumb.
— Sarah Koenig
I'm the light skinned version of Mandingo, I've seen more Beatles and Jagged Edges than Ringo.
— Ludacris
The ignorance of the dark-skinned strata, despite the government's ceaseless educational campaigns. No wonder their women were often preg.
— Philip K. Dick
They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.
— Neil Kinnock
Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
— Joseph Joubert
The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.
— Sherman Alexie
I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.
— Diane Abbott
Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside.
— Marge Piercy
I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day.
— Ani DiFranco
Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish onesensation, fire, from the other, frost. — A.S. Byatt
His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.
— Karen Marie Moning
The twentieth-century scholar G. B. Harrison, believing the woman to have been black-skinned, proposed a prostitute named Lucy Morgan;
— Paul Edmondson
Over the years, I've gotten a little bit thick-skinned when it comes to the acting thing.
— George Eads
I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.
— Nicole Kidman
Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson,Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson. — Kanye West
And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned,
— Lupita Nyong'o
I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.
— J.K. Rowling
'Skinned' tells the story of Lia, a young girl who has it all - until she nearly dies and has her consciousness transferred into a robot body.
— John Joseph Adams
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.
— John Carmack
Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!
— William Shakespeare
A dark-skinned boy who beckons cheers from his friends with his hands. "Go, Zeke!" one of the girls shouts.
— Veronica Roth
That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
— Curtis LeMay
Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.
— Terence Young
I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach.
— Clive Anderson
A normal life? Now that's the real fairytale.
— Judith Graves
A dark-skinned young woman sat on the roof of the aftcastle, one leg swinging as she watched the new slaves shuffle across.
— Joe Abercrombie
As a pale-skinned, dark-haired Celtic sort, he didn't care for the heat.
— Maggie Stiefvater
I wish i were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart.
— Julia L. Roberts
That is surely childhood's end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say: "Nobody else is going to do this.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Hunting trophies are deceased wild animals," said the man next to her, "skinned and mounted on the wall.
— Annabel Joseph
The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.
— James Hillman
