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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
-Frederick Douglass
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The Mind Does Not Take Its Complexion

Frederick Douglass
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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I've heard that i've gotten a lighter complexion, as if i've bleached my skin. i think that is so stupid and ludicrous. for those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. i just didn't bleach mine. i'm a black woman. i don't want to be anything but a black woman.
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I never wanted to grow a thicker skin; i felt a real sense of pride in my thin skin, and in a weird way, i still do, because it's my thin skin that allows me to empathize with other people. it's the thing that allows me to create vulnerable art. it's the thing that allows me to create other feelings and make songs that actually grab people and touch people. i feel like i've spent my life fighting that thicker skin because i don't want to become an embittered asshole.
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You cannot have a healthy body without drinking a great deal of water. but remember, you can't just drink a glass of water and tell a glass of water to please go straight to your skin and moisturize your complexion. water has to be there all the time, doing what it does naturally in a healthy body.
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Even if your skin is perfect, even if it's glowing and beautiful, electric lights defeat you. they deaden the complexion, make it look drab. they rob you of color...in the evening, you just can't play the natural kid bit, that fresh-scrubbed look.
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It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place among men. whether intellect could be communicated may be a matter of doubt: but size, strength, beauty, complexion, and perhaps even longevity are in a degree transmissible... as the human race could not be improved in this way, without condemning all the bad specimens to celibacy, it is not probable, that an attention to breed should ever become general.
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Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? i did not really admire a white skin so much myself. did i not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun?
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