Quotes About Self-worth

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce I think I'm about a hundred thousand dollars short.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being'.

We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Man is not made better by being degraded.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Ladies: If a man really wants to be with you, you WILL know it! If you have to question it, let it go!

In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

I am not an animal! I am a human being! I…am…a man!

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.