Dark Skin Quotes

“The highest degree of beauty is found on dark skin; that of ugliness, on light skin.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“His skin, kissed by warmth and shadow, gleamed with a luster that made every curve and dip of his body arresting, each droplet accentuating the depth of his complexion like scattered stars against midnight.”
― Milan Sno

“i was a southern Negro man playing music
married to a high yellow woman who loved my unheard
face, who slept with me in nordic
beauty.”
― Sonia Sanchez, Does Your House Have Lions ?

“Lean bodies. Shadows
Incarnate with a grace
Both dark and bright.

As though the world
Were showing off. Black,
Like sable. Like the deep
Center of the darkest fruit,

The first fig. Primordial.”
― Tracy K. Smith, The Body's Question

“Chinese ancestry notwithstanding, Kama wanted Dune to always know her Blackness as the first nonnegotiable aspect of who she was. "Every light-skinned Black person comes from a lineage of dark-skinned Black people and something else. For a lot of them, that light skin was a wound, from an act of violence and domination. And for a lot of us, every day, whiteness tries to make light skin wound the rest of us. But for you? You come from a love story. You come from two lineages of oppressed peoples who found love with each other.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Grievers