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light, bright, damn near white; bright, white and dead white
adjective
(used of a black person) very light-skinned US- [S]ome stud said, “Light, bright and damn near white; how does that nigger do it?” — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 43, 1945
- The light-bright-damn-near-white woman who had been naked in his bed when Iris had called opened the door for him. — Chester Himes, Cotton Comes to Harlem, p. 87, 1965
- They’d elect our same old light, bright, damn-near-white Congressman who was always making those pretty promises that never amounted to anything, those bullshit promises. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 199, 1965
- Hey, lots a spades runnin with the ofay, making out they’s jes bright white an dead right as old El Beejay. — Robert Gover, JC Saves, p. 69, 1968
- And always the one in charge was light, bright and almost white. — H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, p. 20, 1969
- “Tammy, you’re light-bright-and-damn-near-white, so you’re not going to bear witness to the truth.” — Eric Jerome Dickey, Cheaters, p. 36, 1999
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