The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
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.
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
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.
None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
A thick skin is a gift from God.