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Skin Color Quotes

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"A light-skinned person can't help the way that they were born no more than a dark-skinned person can help the way that they were born."
"The original humans were dark-skinned... the only real selective advantage to developing a white skin... is that the white skin produces vitamin D much quicker."
"Map of the world by natural skin color: I'm really dumbfounded that I never realized skin color is literally just caused by being closer to or farther from the equator."
"You have the right to be treated with equality, regardless of the color of your skin."
"We should really do a show where they highlight the issues of dark-skinned women."
"Skin pigmentation doesn't determine your moral and spiritual formation."
"So yes, the brown skin characters in Avatar meant a lot to many brown-skinned people."
"We might discover in the future certain variants that are responsible for the color of the skin in those populations."
"Colorism, futurism, and texturism disproportionately impact darker skinned people."
"Nobody should hate themselves for their skin tone."
"I'm proud to be the color. I mean, I would love to get some Sun, right?"
"If more people could do this [], we wouldn't have all this racial [] divide because you look different and your skin color is different than mine [__]."
"Why does truth, dark skin, and confidence equal aggression?"
"We can talk about people as being different shades, not different colors."
"Not every single black woman is dissatisfied with her skin color. You have chocolate, vanilla, mahogany, and shades. No women that are very satisfied with their skin tone don't want to be anything else."
"Dark skin is harder to work with than white skin, that's true. But why? And the question is, if we go far back enough, is it possible that some things in society have just kind of been constructed to favor white skin?"
"We are harsher to dark-skinned and brown-skinned black women than to multiracial or lighter-complexioned ones."
"For those y'all out there that think having dark skin is an inconvenience, Shh don't say that. We are eradicating that thought process permanently, period."
"Your skin might get a bit lighter, but if you're a person of color, you're not necessarily meant to have the same color skin all over."
"She also promised to fight injustice when she saw it, especially the one that was a direct result of skin color."
"There aren't different races, there are simply different skin colors."
"I think dark-skinned people are carrying a big weight on their back. And vitamin D is going to help."
"Skin of color tends to be from olive to brown to black."
"Your skin color is determined by the melanin in your skin."
"I've grown to love my skin color more now. I'm actually really happy with it."
"What is it about skin color that ties and also separates so many different human populations?"
"Just because we have a different color of skin, we have a little bit more melanin, doesn't change the work that we do."
"Personally I'm all about characters with darker skin even if they're just like a little bit browner. I'm all about that."
"I wish it wasn't about skin color."
"It'd be doper to see everybody on that page of skin color is not an issue, but we keep continuously seeing that your skin color definitely matters."
"He doesn't understand why people judge each other based on the color of their skin, but he knows they do."
"The whiter your skin is, the more compliments you get."
"You shouldn't be scared of them and you shouldn't judge them just based on the color of their skin."
"Two people can have basically the same undertone and even kind of basically the same value of their skin, but just different levels of saturation of pigment to their skin."
"Skin color is such an adaptive trait that always fascinates me."
"Chinese do not have yellow skin; in fact, we have paler skin than some Europeans."
"There's already a limitation of how many darker skin characters that we get within animation, on top of them being good representation."
"Being light-skinned does not mean that you are pretty, and being dark-skinned does not mean that you are ugly."
"Cheers to being black, beautiful, and loving our skin."
"A person's skin color doesn't have anything to do with the content of their character."
"No matter your skin color, you know you're beautiful."
"I do understand that me being lighter-skinned, there is a privilege."
"I don't think skin color should have anything to do with a political view."
"It's my literal dream to have that skin color and wear that color."
"This morning when I was talking to my trainer, I was telling her how beautiful your skin is, how I always wanted to be brown skin, and I end up having a beautiful brown skin daughter."
"Melanin gives our skin its major natural color and provides UV protection."
"Be happy and be glad for the skin that you are in."