Skin Quotes

There is something extraordinary in this space between our skin.

I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.

The wind tickles my skin trees bend back and forth sunlight kisses the earth and yet with no sound at all, I hear everything. I am peace.

The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry’s class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to teach us all: Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.

We are all just wanting bones and stardust skin trying to find our way home.

Akhilesh Yadav played a clever game by joining hands with BSP so that he can save his skin and use Dalit votes to win a few seats.

You broke my skin and seeped into my soul.

With all the secrets and lies you keep. Your beauty is only skin deep. Vamp.

A Black beauty has to protect her skin at all cost.

Your eyes: a tender illustration of love, how you paint affirmations across my bare skin.