Estelle Quotes

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.

We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down.

In my country - even though we have a lot of dark-skinned people - people think the lighter you are, the better you are. They think beauty has to do with being light-skinned. I think that's really wrong.

There's this issue where I'm really doing well and got hate 'cause I'm too light-skinned. I understand why people say that - throughout history, the lighter you are, that's how it's been. But it's not my fault. My mom and dad had me! I look how I look.

I can only say that sometimes skin colour does make a difference.

I've experienced colorism in that way: where if you're lighter, then you'll potentially be accepted into society better than if you were darker-skinned.

Colorism is unfortunately still an issue today.

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

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me.

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Please do not think me terribly narrow, but Sinha is comparatively white, whilst Muckerji is black as my hat!

If you're white, You're all right. If you're brown, Stick around. But if you're black, Get back, get back.

… we clung to the belief... that our white skin made us "better" than all other people. And this belief comforted us, for we felt worthless and weak when confronted with authorities who had cheapened nearly all we held dear, except our skin color. There, in the land of Epidermis, every one of us was a little king.

I agree that lighter-skinned women get favored in Hollywood, and I'm not proud to say that.

If you are wearing the right jersey, people rallying in around you, and hugging each other when you win, and there's so much love and excitement when you're together. And then people seem to walk away, take their jerseys off, and start focusing on the color of your skin. It didn't matter for that couple hours at the game - why does it matter now?

We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings.

We live in a world where racism hasn't changed at all. It's that old thing of, you know, the more things change, the more things remain the same.

I would be ignorant to say colorism doesn't exist; it's gross and disgusting.

We're all complaining about diversity in Hollywood, but we've got to address the colorism within the black community of Hollywood first.

I don't want my daughter to ever feel that she can't do something because of her skin colour.