“Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.”
Mark Twain book Following the Equator
Source: Following the Equator (1897), Ch. XLI
"The Return of Jimi Hendrix"
Dream Harder (1993)
Context: He was young and black and beautiful
big eyed, perfect skin an'
he played my guitar like a lightning storm
like twirlin' feathers in the wind
he could make it sound like the end of the world
a fire, the flick of a knife
he could squeeze it slow and masterful
like the hand that brought the world to life
“Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.”
Mark Twain book Following the Equator
Source: Following the Equator (1897), Ch. XLI
Joe Trohman (1984) American musician
My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue (2004), Ultimate Guitar Interview (2008)
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) British poet
First Love; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Nancy Wilson (1954) American rock musician, member of Heart
On female guitarists, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8EKTGlQp-c, 2016
“God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.”
Katherine Anne Porter book The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Source: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Stephen R. Lawhead (1950) American writer
Source: The Bone House (2011), p. 20
“A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Maxim 609, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
“He is about as big as Clive Churchill was when he played and he owns an ugly dog.”
Jack Gibson (1929–2008) Australian rugby league player and coach
When asked about the weaknesses of his former Parramatta charge Paul Taylor.