Quotes About Respect

never make someone a priority, when all you are is just a option.

I thought of human beings, as far back as I had read, of our deeds and didoes. According to some scientists, we were born to forever crawl in swamps, but for some not yet explained reason, we decided to stand erect and, despite gravity's pull and push, to remain standing. We, carnivorous beings, decided not to eat our brothers and sisters but to try to respect them. And further, to try to love them.

If we tolerate vulgarity, our future will sway and fall under a burden of ignorance.

I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

There is more to life than being a diligent maid with a permanent pussy.

Every person I knew had a hellish horror of being called out of his name. It was a dangerous practice to call a Negro anything that could be loosely construed as insulting because of the centuries of their having been called niggers, jigs, dinges, blackbirds, crows, boots and spooks.

I'll accept no excuse if you return a book to me that has been badly handled. My imagination boggled at the punishment I would deserve if in fact I did abuse a book of Mrs Flowers'. Death would be too kind and brief.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.

You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.

Girlfriends' code. What's discussed with girlfriends stays with girlfriends.

I don't want to disappoint you. I don't want to let you down. And I don't want to embarrass you in front of the people you love.

It's okay to expect more from the people around you. That doesn't make you unreasonable. It makes you smart.

I would not ever have her feel as though I needed more than what she could give me.

I'm more concerned with what you think.

Maybe I think you're worth it.

For God's sake, don't hug me.

I'll take that as my cue to mind my own business

Cut the sarcasm or I'll cut you

But love isn't about causing pain for the person you care about

Cut the sarcasm. It makes you sound like an even bigger asshole

I will note in passing that we shared a dislike for both writers and scholars who treat some body, or some body of work, as if they owned it.

Hasn't anyone ever told you," Jesse asked, in a semi-amused voice, " that a gentleman never lays a hand on a lady?" Which I thought was kind of funny, considering where Jesse had had his hand the last time I'd seen him. But I thought it better to let that slide.

if you have to say "no offense" to someone, you have already offended them.

Well, hi, CeeCee, I said. Hi, Adam. Nice of you two to drop by. Ever heard of knocking? Oh, please, CeeCee said. Why? Because we might interrupt you and your precious Jesse? Jesse, upon hearing this, raised his eyebrows. Way up.