Quotes by Skin Color Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way. Adam McKay skin-colorjudgingthinking And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is turning the clock back hundreds of years. Back to a time before this nation declared that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator; not by their ancestry, not by their skin color, not by their gender, not by Congress, not by the Constitution, and not by the laws Alan Keyes skin-colormenyears Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color. Alveda King skin-colorskinspeople I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth. Angelique Kidjo skin-colorcareskins You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it. Angelique Kidjo skin-colorskinsworld I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me. Annie Ilonzeh skin-colormotherfather Love is not a matter of getting connected. It is a matter of seeing that we already ARE connected within an intricate web of relationships that extends throughout all life. It is a realization of 'no boundary' -- that we are all made of the same stuff, riding through time on the same spaceship, faced with the same problems in the world, the same hopes and fears. It is a connection at the core, that makes irrelevant skin color, age, sex, looks or money. Anodea Judith skin-colorlove-issex Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage. Arthur Mitchell skin-colorrightsmen I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature. ASAP Rocky skin-colorimmatureskins A lot of the exercise of embracing identity as a political affirmation is not just simply parked in the question of skin color or culture, but more it is a political affirmation with all these implications and more. Bocafloja skin-colorpoliticalexercise Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't stop to think or reason. He acts on instinct, like a stable animal, convinced he's doing good, that he's always right, and sanctimoniously proud to go around f***ing up ... anyone he perceives to be different from himself, be it because of skin color, creed, language, nationality, or ... leisure habits. What the world needs is more thoroughly evil people and fewer borderline pigheads. Carlos Ruiz Zafon skin-coloranimalthinking We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color. Claudia Black skin-colorracemother Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind. Dave Brubeck skin-colormusicsoul What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was obvious that racial differences went far beyond skin color. It would be difficult to categorize all the distinctions I noticed. In fact, I made no effort to catalogue them at the time, but their differences ranged all the way from physical characteristics to more subtle differences such as extreme aversion for work in cold weather. On cold days, when I felt invigorated, my black co-workers seemed lethargic. David Duke ku-klux-klanskin-colordifferences The two most important forms of diversity when it comes to innovation are visible diversity (typically skin color, age, gender, etc.) and underrepresentation (anytime someone is less than 15% of the majority group). Other forms of diversity are also relevant but these are the ones that psychologically play the most role in how someone engages with the innovative process. David Livermore skin-colorplaytwo I think the notion that we are different just because of skin color, and that we should be kept apart or kept from interbreeding, is very hurtful. David Oyelowo hurtfulskin-colorthinking It's wrong to discriminate based on skin color when there are so many other reasons not to like someone. Dennis Miller skin-colorcolorskins All these people who think they deserve free health care, or a job, or a plasma screen TV, simply because they radiate heat at 98.6 degrees, or because they were born in a certain place, or because they have a certain skin color - it's all bunk. There's no such thing as a 'just' wage. There's only what you earn. Doug Casey skin-colorjobsthinking That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color. Eric S. Raymond skin-colorindependentstupid As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation. Ernest Cline skin-colortwoyears123»
