Skin Quotes

Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

Did you know that in New Orleans they still have brown bag parties? What’s that, you ask? You and I go to a party, and when we get to the door, there’s a brown bag hanging down from the ceiling, and if our skin is darker than the brown bag, we can’t go in.

I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what’s really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I’m not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts.

It is no longer skin that I wear. It is you.

It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is also exhaled by the lungs at each expiration.

I would be lying if I said there were not times that I am an earthquake contained inside this skin.

Many times over my eyes have devoured the layers of your skin but I’ve never seen you naked.

To be the water that engulfs your skin, oh, let me be the sea you drown in.