Sue Monk Kidd Skins Quotations

We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.

I felt a trembling along my skin, a treaveling current that moved up my spine, down my arms, pulsing out from my fingertips. I was practically radiating. The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing our skin," he said. "Change the world-that's how we gotta think."

In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.