Skin Tone Quotes:

The thing that binds us together is the commonality of our dreams, not our skin tone.

- T. D. Jakes

source: "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

topic: Dream, Skin Tone, Skins, Commonality

I'm the type of individual that I enjoy watching any different cultural lives, and I see the common humanity even though the hair textures are different or the skin tones are varied.

- Angela Bassett

source: "'The Rosa Parks Story': Angela Bassett Interview". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

topic: Hair, Common Humanity, Skin Tone

In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.

- Matt Groening

topic: Skin Color, Yellow, Skin Tone

I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was for a film.

- Eva Green

topic: Dark, Thinking, Skin Tone, Matched

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

- Josephine Baker

topic: Mean, Equality, Men, Born Free, Birth Place

Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish.

- Jenny Eclair

topic: Fake, Skins, Tone, Jellyfish, Skin Tone

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.

- Peter Watts

source: Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.92, Head of Zeus

topic: Fighting, Skins, Limited Resources, Handy, Bloodline

Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are. Somehow those skin tones that look so good with dark, dark hair just don't work for me with lighter shades.

- John Byrne

source: "John Byrne Explains Why 'Racebending' Doesn't Help The Fantastic Four Reboot" by ComicBookMovie.com, June 21, 2014.

topic: Cute, Dark, Hair, Hispanic, Dark Hair

My type, which I didnt realize until somebody pointed out to me, apparently is brunettes with darker skin tones, but that is about it as far as aesthetically.

- Derek Hough

topic: Skins, Tone, Realizing, Brunette, Skin Tone

Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper arms with equanimity.

- Cynthia Heimel

topic: Skins, Body, Arms, Equanimity, Seventeen

Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.

- Edward Jay Epstein

topic: Real, Loss, Light, Natural Light, Skin Tone

It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.

- Susannah Constantine

source: "Mistresses of the makeover". Interview with Cathrin Schaer, www.nzherald.co.nz. February 19, 2008.

topic: Style, Skins, Body, Body Shapes, Skin Tone

I’m just trying to imagine you in flannel pink sock monkey pajamas. I’m sure you look stunning in pink. (Damien) Actually, with his skin tone he probably does look really good in it. I would definitely say he’s an autumn. (Kish) That’s summer, you dweeb. (Damien) I find it fascinating that you two women know that color palettes for clothes have a name. The fact you corrected him really scares me. (Sin)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Summer, Autumn, Color, Flannels, Skin Tone

If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and the skin tones. That's what I enjoy about acting. It can be very subtle, like that.

- Michael Rooker

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Character, Mad, Upset, Skin Tone

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

- Eric Liu

topic: Color, America, Skins, Whiteness, Color Wheel

My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.

- Amy Sedaris

topic: Fall, Eye, Phones, Racks, Skin Tone

Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.

- Irvine Welsh

topic: Police, Skins, Tone, Skin Tone