There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

We must express ourselves in ways that demonstrate our respect for others.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin.

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.

Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep.

Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.

My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.