Light Skin Quotes

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

“Fair & Lovely cream sells like hotcakes all around South Asia, even though everyone knows it's bullshit and doesn't help make you either "fair" or "lovely." You can never wipe off the brown no matter how hard you try, no matter how hard you pray, but, still, people aspire and hope maybe, one day, one bottle will contain a magical elixir that takes them to Whiteness.”
― Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

“Whiteness, like herpes, lingers forever. If you travel across South Asia, for example, you'll look at all the ads promoting beauty products and ask yourself why everyone looks like a white person from New Jersey with a summer tan. In fact, beauty is still often measured by saaf rang, or clean skin color, which refers to "light skin tone." Fair & Lovely cream sells like hotcakes all around South Asia, even though everyone knows it's bullshit and doesn't help make you either "fair" or "lovely." You can never wipe off the brown no matter how hard you try, no matter how hard you pray, but, still, people aspire and hope maybe, one day, one bottle will contain a magical elixir that takes them to Whiteness.”
― Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

“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 ?

“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