Franz Kline (1910–1962) American painter
1950's, Conversations With Artists, 1957
“I don't know why black skin may not cover a true heart as well as a white one.”
To a neighbor (1856), as quoted in A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant https://books.google.com/books?id=0G1LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155&dq=%22may+not+cover+a+true+heart+as+well+as+a%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uZngVIKtGsicNqz1gYgB&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false (1868), by Albert Deane Richardson, Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, p. 155. According to some other sources, he had also used this phrase in a letter to Robert E. Lee (General of the Confederacy). <br class="br">1850s
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Neil Harbisson (1984) Catalan-Irish musician, artist and activist
As quoted in El Punt (28 January 2012). "La teva cara em sona" http://www.elpuntavui.cat/noticia/article/5-cultura/19-cultura/500466-la-teva-cara-em-sona.html
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Source: The Negro's Complaint (1788), Lines 13-16
“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
“I do not know why we equate—and with such examples before us—a white skin with civilisation.”
Helen Suzman (1917–2009) South African politician
As quoted in "The Hon. Member For Houghton" https://web.archive.org/web/19960913173321/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/04/20/the-hon-member-for-houghton (20 April 1987), by E. J. Kahn, The New Yorker
“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
“white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President”
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer
About Bill Clinton. Comment, The New Yorker, 5 October 1998.
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/05/comment-6543
“Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.”
Karl Marx book Das Kapital
Vol. I, Ch. 10, Section 7, pg. 329.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
Source: Das Kapital/Das kommunistische Manifest
Context: In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Nuenen, The Netherlands, Autumn 1885; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 428) p. 31 <br class="br">1880s, 1885
Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks
I am truly a ray of sunlight under the earth...
Source: Black Skin, White Masks (1952), Ch. 2