Quotes About Self-worth

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

The good thing about India is that they believe something great about themselves.

It's very wrong to take less money than you're worth.

It was not that he was ashamed of his job or anything, it was just that . . . well, he was ashamed of his job.

Don't be a fool. Go lose your head over some other girl. I'm not for you.

Listen to me he said. You are not to look upon yourself as victims or victims you will surely be.

To love is to stop comparing.

First, to define the passion of shame, I think it may be called a sorrowful reflection on our own unworthiness, proceeding from an apprehension that others either do, or might, if they knew all, deservedly despise us.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Amma was shorter, with African hips and thighs perfect slave girl material one director told her when she walked into an audition for a play about Emancipation whereupon she walked right back out again

Yazz sometimes has sleepless nights worrying she'll be alone for the whole of her life if she can't get a proper boyfriend at nineteen what hope is there for when she's older?

It was so odd seeing a stage full of black women tonight, all of the as dark or darker than her, a first, although rather than feel validated, she felt slightly embarrassed. If only the play was about the first black woman prime minister of Britain, or a Nobel prize-winner for science, or a self-made billionaire, someone who represented legitimate success at the highest levels, instead of lesbian warriors strutting around and falling for each other.

She had looked in the mirror a million times and only saw the brown of her skin and not the magic flowing beneath it.

Keeping her man well fed and fucked are number one priorities that she can't slack on because you can never know when a woman dressed to the nines with a blond wig, long legs and a high fat ass that should have been equal to you in almost every way may decide to hop on the first southbound Greyhound and end up looking at you through whispering letters on a dusty storefront window.

You see, no one ever told her to keep her legs closed and crossed at the ankles. No one ever said: "Save it for the one you love" or "Good girls say no.

When love is conditional we feel imperfect and unlovable.

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

you can apologize, but don't ever be sorry!

Knowledge is just a commodity. It is acquired in order to be resold. All those who have grown out of going to school have to do their learning virtually in secret, for anyone who admits the he has still something to learn devalues himself as a man whose knowledge is inadequate.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

There was something Dikeledi called sham. It made people believe they were more important than the normal image of humankind. She had grown up surrounded by sham.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?

I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.