Black Skin Quotes

“First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“74. In 1944 a 16-year-old black student in Columbus, Ohio won an essay contest on the theme ‘what to do with Hitler after the war’ by submitting a single sentence. “Put him in black skin and let him live the rest of his life in America.”
― Scott Matthews, Interesting, Fun and Crazy Facts of America - The Knowledge Encyclopedia To Win Trivia

“Women with dark skin are sharing selfies on social media after decades of being underrepresented in the mainstream media.

From what I have observed much of the dark skin adoration on social media appears to come from us - black women. We tend to use the appreciation hashtags with our own pictures of photographs of dark skin women whom we feel are stunning.

While I am loving this fierceness.. There is just one sidetone to this revolution: I feel as if we are much more appreciated if we show more skin. The timelines are filled with absolutely beautiful dark-skinned women but most sadly most of the time they are all oiled up and showing their body parts in different angles.

Now, I am definitely in to art and as a model I know that this comes with the territory. But we most not forget that we are Queens.. We need to stop degrading ourselves for likes on the gram. You don't have to be naked to show the world you're beautiful.
You my sister are an African Queen.

I feel as if black women are only appreciated if they wear very provocative clothes or if they do naked photoshoots. To me, it's degrading and reminds me of the time that we couldn't ride the bus because we were black. Women were seen as servants. The black women that weren't servants were sex slaves.

We are not objects, we are not meat and people need to stop looking at us as sex objects. BUT we need to start respecting ourselves first! A black woman is a woman first and it should not even be necessary to specify the colour but this is the society we live in and I feel like I had to share this.”
― Vanessa Ngoma

“Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewing all the way down she back...
The only thing soft about Tan-Tan is she big molasses-brown eyes that could look on you, and your heart would beat time...”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber

“Skin the colour of chestnuts”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

“The velvet darkness of his face”
― Camilla Gibb, Sweetness in the Belly

“So, when I experienced such a discriminatory behaviour from that woman, I knew that it was her psychological status that was the problem, and not my blackness.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“God dipped his fingers in black ink
and inked my whole body.
can’t you see it?
i have poetry and history written
all over my skin.
can’t you see it?
come closer and see
how every melanin is a letter
and every curve is a chapter.
i am the sequel of a story
with no ending in sight.
| drawings on the wall.”
― Faith Farai, 'PRETTY FOR A BLACK GIRL ' IS NOT A COMPLIMENT!

“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore they had to convince everyone (but mostly themselves) that my skin colour was black, which is obviously not. They wanted to lessen the value of my skin, my people, and my origins.”
― Mitta Xinindlu