"I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate."

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Source : "Laura Mvula on why she, like many black women, shaves her head". Interview with Anita Bhagwandas, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2013.

Laura Mvula

#Chocolate Quotes #Skins Quotes #Shade Quotes

“It is hard for an athlete to standout through an email, especially when his email gets mixed in with the emails coming from recruits that think they can play somewhere they really can't. That makes filtering through recruit emails an almost impossible task.”
“Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.”
“I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.”
“You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.”
“Power must never be trusted without a check.”
“If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down little ideas no matter how insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude.”
“I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.”

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