Shay Mitchell Quotes

I love my brownness.

Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!

black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.

Have you the folly to think that the white men … are the only beloved images of God …. I am satisfied with the manner of my creation, my skin, my people—even if other people are not.

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

I'm proud of my colour, I'm proud of my skin, I'm proud of who I am.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again because you can't say it enough: Your skin is beautiful - dark, light, in the middle, whatever. Brown is beautiful. Your hair is beautiful. If you wear a weave, it's beautiful. If you choose to be natural, that's beautiful. Also, you are enough.

Embrace the color of your skin and your own beauty.

Black is beautiful.

Girls of all kinds can be beautiful - from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between. It's not easy though because many people still put beauty into a confining, narrow box...Think outside of the box...Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

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.

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to put that out there so blatantly, so that before you listen to me you know that I'm Asian. But I thought it was sort of cool to embrace the Korean half of me, which I love.

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

I know I'm representing a group - black, Latin, whatever you want to put me with - and I want to show that they are beautiful the way they are. I think that's really important for our youth to see.

While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty.

I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty.

I love that feeling of, you know, we are women, we are so different, our imperfections are what make us unique and beautiful.

Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.

Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.