#skinned

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then. ↗

— Pam Grier

#african american #american #black #concise #dark

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#get #goal #knees #may #score

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. ↗

— Janis Ian

#clear #high #high school #i #learned

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people. ↗

— Richard Armour

#deep #full #only #people #skin

What happens when you're both the Beauty and the Beast?" ~ Second Skin tagline ↗

— Judith Graves

#skinned-series #beauty

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once. ↗

— Jimmy Durante

#man #more #once #only #skinned

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#beautiful #blend #bottom #brazil #brown

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. ↗

— Ross Perot

#knees #like #painful #skinned #superficial

A normal life? Now that's the real fairytale. ↗

— Judith Graves

#life

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#destroyed #doing #elbows #era #even