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"I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it."
"Look for foods that create beauty from the inside out. Instead of coating yourself in chemical laden beauty products, why not try to get healthy skin from the foods you eat."
"Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed."
"When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly."
"But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target"
"Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin."
"If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin."
"One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves."
"Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own."
"Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection."
"Under your skin the moon is alive."
"My skin is too thick and bullet proof to touch me."
"I was like, 'What is this?' Until I found out it was stress related. That's how I internalized it. I don't do that anymore. My favorite saying in the world is, 'The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.' I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin. I am just so not there anymore."
"Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide."
"If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think."
"Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty."
"And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react."
"I tell you what, I don't like a hostile red skin any more than you do. And when they are hostile, I've fought 'em, hard as any man. But I never yet drew a bead on a squaw or papoose, and I despise the man who would."
"...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full."
"I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin."
