Quotes About Self-worth

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

But, don't let anybody make you do something you don't think is right. Your mother already raised you. Stay steady. And if that makes somebody mad, they can scratch their mad place and get glad.

Hell, girl, everybody feels sorry for you, but nobody owes you a damn thing.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room.

I was liked, and what a difference it made. I was respected not as Mrs. Henderson's grandchild or Bailey's sister but for just being Marguerite Johnson.

The unquestioning acceptance by my peers had dislodged the familiar insecurity.

The idea came to me that my people may be a race of masochists and that not only was it our fate to live the poorest, roughest life but that we liked it like that.

Image letting some white woman rename you for her convenience.

There ain't no pay beneath the sun As sweet as rest when a job's well done. I was born to work up to my grave But I was not born To be a slave. One

Imagine letting some white woman rename you for her convenience.

For a few seconds it was a tossup over whether I would laugh (imagine being named Hallelujah) or cry (imagine letting some white woman rename you for her convenience).

In later years I asked her if she loved me and she brushed me off with; God is love. Just worry about whether you're being a good girl, then He will love you.

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

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

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

We often think that our affairs, great or small, must be tended continuously and in detail, or our world will disintegrate, and we will lose our places in the universe. That is not true, or if it is true, then our situations were so temporary that they would have collapsed anyway.

I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal women, That's me.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

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.

And you look beautiful without it, but I want you to feel just as beautiful as I see you.

If you ever wake up and see the light and decide you want me back? You're going to have to crawl.

I'm glad to hear that what belongs to me can't be swayed by the pretty words of others.

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