“Between skin and skin, there is only light.”

“There are no white skins, and there are no black skins. Humans skins are of different shades of orange.”

Neil Harbisson (1984) Catalan-Irish musician, artist and activist

“What a charming girl! And what a skin! She positively radiated light around her.”

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) French painter and sculptor

“The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin-deep saying.”

Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.”

Mark Twain book Following the Equator

“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

“Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.
-An-mei”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club