“- Judge: That girl is colored!
- Thelma Cleland: Honey, nobody 'colored' me! I was born this way!”
Parley Baer - Judge
Lynn Whitfield - Thelma Cleland

“- Meneer Chrome: The Larousse collection specializes in dark plants, often black. Primula Arricula. Canna Indica. Tulipfera Nigra. Anemone Atrocarrulea.
- Juliana: I would be unacceptable then in a Larousse collection.
- Meneer Chrome: Oh, I think you would be rare enough, exotic enough.
- Juliana: But my skin is white.”
Ewan McGregor - Meneer Chrome
Greta Scacchi - Juliana

“- Judge Boshoff: Why do you people call yourselves black? You look more brown than black.
- Steve Biko: Why do you call yourselves white? You look more pink than white.”
Michael Turner - Judge Boshoff
Denzel Washington - Steve Biko

“Love, as it exists in society, is merely the mingling of two whims and the contact of two skins.”
Mila Parély - Geneviève de Marras

“- Seaweed: Livin' in the ghetto, black is everywhere you go. Who'd have thought I'd love a girl whose skin was white as winter snow?
- Penny Pingleton: In my ivory tower, life was just a Hostess snack, but now I've tasted chocolate, and I'm never goin' back!”
Elijah Kelley - Seaweed
Amanda Bynes - Penny Pingleton