Tamannaah Quotes

When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?

But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.

When I was, like, 5 years old, I used to pray to have light skin because I would always hear how pretty that little light skin girl was, or I would hear I was pretty to be dark skin. It wasn't until I was 13 that I really learned to appreciate my skin color and know that I was beautiful.

Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.

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

Some white people are privileged, some aren't. Some black people are, some aren't. It's strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack in that it's making a generalization - a negative one - based on skin color.

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

When I started modeling, it was like, 'Oh, she's too dark,' and I kind of looked at them like, 'You're too daft.'

My complexion, we too gutter: light-skinned women are more sensitive.

Our internal racism is still alive. We are still putting each other down and making jokes about each other because of the color of our skin. With women particularly, it's difficult because the beauty business says, 'If you don't look a certain way, God made a mistake.'

The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you can produce beauty in the context of a figure that has that kind of velvety blackness. It can be done.

Where I grew up, we had light-skinned models but not dark. Every time I would talk about being a model with my friends, they would start laughing out loud.

Far too often, I have been accepted or rejected for work because of the color of my skin.

Colorism is unfortunately still an issue today.

I've worked at a Game Stop and had my service turned down before because of the color of my skin. And it's a shame.

Dark skin is considered less than light skin in the in the minds of many in our community and in the media.

I think the obsession with fair skin should end.

If you walk into any magazine store, I guarantee that nine out of 10 covers will feature white, blonde, blue-eyed, slim women because that's still the ideal of beauty. When a black or Asian figure shows up in a fashion magazine, she's the exception, not the rule.

Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential.

In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.

It's wonderful that newer brands such as Fenty are making clear statements about being for all skin tones.

I'm guilty of reverse discrimination. I'm white, and people don't think that white fighters are any good.

We want to be treated equally and not judged off our skin color.

Light-skinned women, we can break them down more easy.

In India we have hundreds of skin tones and don't we need to show that?