Lighter Skin

Famous quotes containing the words lighter and/or skin:

“To be in love
Is to touch things with a lighter hand.
In yourself you stretch, you are well.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“The intellect,—that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)