The Skin I'm In Quotes

“Gotta realize that all you are is all you got.”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In

“To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.”
― Sharon Flake, The Skin I'm In

“Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails”
― Sharon Flake, The Skin I'm In

“To look in the mirror and like what you see even if it's not your idea of beauty”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In

“I took a lot of wrong turns to find out who I really was. You will, too. (Page 19)”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In

“I'm like superman when I get Charlese's clothes on. I got a new attitude and my teachers sure don't like it none" ~page 4”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In

“Remember the acorn. Even when you don't see it growing, it's pushing past the dirt. Reaching for the sun. Growing stronger.”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In

“It takes a long time to accept yourself for who you are. To see the poetry in your walk,” she says, shaking her hips like she’s doing some African dance. Kids bust out laughing. “To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn’t look like anybody else’s idea of beauty.” For a minute,”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In

“″You gotta love yourself, baby. If you don’t, who will?″”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In

“You have to take a stand when things aren’t right.”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In

“You ain’t no kid. We divorced when you were what, in ninth grade? Seems like you’d be over it by now.”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In

“What does your face say to the world?”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In

“Maleeka, your skin is pretty. Like a blue-black sky after it's rained and rained.”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In

“They’re all good ones, Mr. Mac. Some of them just need more support than others.”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In

“Everybody is quiet. ″Who read the thirty pages I assigned last night?″ Miss Saunders asks.
Most of the hands go up, including mine, even though I didn’t read none of it.”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In