Creativity Quote by John Lennon

Lennon’s line reads like a shrug, but it’s really a dare: stop auditioning people for acceptability based on the most visible, most policed parts of their bodies. The specificity matters. “How long my hair is” isn’t abstract tolerance; it’s a jab at the era’s petty authoritarianism, when hair became a proxy battle for Vietnam, generational revolt, and the right to exist in public without signing up for someone else’s values. “What colour my skin is” drags the statement out of youth-culture squabbles and into the moral crisis of the time: civil rights, immigration, and who gets treated as fully human. Then he throws gender into the mix, anticipating a shift that rock culture didn’t always handle gracefully.

The subtext is classic Lennon: the personal as a political instrument, delivered in plain language that sounds obvious until you notice who it threatens. By stacking categories, he exposes how identity markers get used as permission slips. The repeated “or” becomes a drumbeat of refusal, denying the listener the comfort of picking one prejudice and pretending it’s separate from the rest. And the “It doesn’t matter” isn’t apathy; it’s an attempt to reroute attention from surface signaling to substance - the person, the work, the message.

Contextually, it fits Lennon’s post-Beatles evolution into celebrity as activist: using pop’s loudspeaker to normalize a radical idea without dressing it up. The power is in the accessibility: a global star insisting that the crowd’s favorite shortcuts for judging people are, frankly, beneath them.