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"Your skin will get better, you're going to be more attractive, you're more likely to get a job - all the things you want, you will get as a result of being in a more calm place."
"I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I'm convinced that it comes from within. If you're happy and healthy, it shows."
"My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it."
"Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin."
"My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful."
"When it's colder, your skin needs more attention."
"It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and criminal exploitation of the American negro from the color of the skin of the person who is the oppressor or the exploiter."
"If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin."
"I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead."
"Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christ’s blood, Christ’s gospel, Christ’s church, and Christ’s expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays ‘bottled up’, confined to the historical skins of Palestine."
"When I grew up I assembled my role models à la cart. I wanted to be an astrophysicist. If I tried to find a role model who grew up in the Bronx with my skin color who was an astrophysicist, I would never have become an astrophysicist."
"I always wear bronzer because I love the way my skin looks when it's tan."
"it seemed a lifetime ago i'd lain in bed with Lena and felt her breath tickling my chin and held her while she slept, felt her heart beating through her skin to mine. it was a lifetime ago. everything was different."
"I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever."
"I'm mesmerized by the way his fingers move confidently along her skin, as though her body is his to reat and touch and tend to. She was mine before she was yours: The words are there, unexpectedly, surging from my throat to my tongue. I swallow them back."
"That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him."
"The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman."
"Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow."
"All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?"
"One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations."
