dark-skinned
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Meanwhile Heathcliff is described in the novel, written in 1847, as "dark-skinned", although his ancestry is ambiguous.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
Growing up as a tall, dark-skinned, plus-size Black woman in Florida, she did not see many women who looked like her on the pages of glossy magazines or fashion blogs.
From Salon • Nov. 16, 2025
“Blood Knot,” the breakthrough play in which he found his voice as a dramatist, is about two brothers from the same mother, one dark-skinned, the other light-skinned.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025
“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame,” a young Langston Hughes proclaimed in an essay nearly 100 years ago.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024
“If perfection were possible, which type would reign? Moral perfection? Mental perfection? Would the smarter man win, or the stronger? The dark-skinned or light-skinned? Would the winner be the most beautiful?”
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
