Quotes About Self-acceptance

Be proud to wear you.

My ideal weight is moobless.

I'm in shape. Round is a shape — isn't it?

The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.

You have to be as relaxed as possible about food and fitness and the rest of it, or you'll be a slave to your beauty habits… you may have a great skin but you become a robot.

I might not be any good at dancing but I am a great eater.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon

There is nobody you need to impress. There is nobody who is judging you. And there will be nobody who can stop you.

You can't help others if you look in the mirror and hate what you see.

I'm forty-five and I still have no idea what I want to be when I "grow up." But I'm starting to finally accept the fact that all I want to be is ME.

You are entitled to say NO to wearing a mask in order to get people to like you. You can trust that the way you are is fine, that your honesty is what attracts others to you, and that your truth is what lights your internal fire.

Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it

I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me.

What it comes to is that if we, who can scarcely be considered a white nation, persist in thinking of ourselves as one, we condemn ourselves, with the truly white nations, to sterility and decay, whereas if we could accept ourselves as we are, we might bring new life to the Western achievements, and transform them.

White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this—which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never—the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.

I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.

I'm a big girl." "Honey," he said, "you ain't no bigger than a minute." She sighed. "Sometimes a minute can be a mighty powerful thing.

White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this—which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never—the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed. People more advantageously placed than we in Harlem were, and are, will no doubt find the psychology and the view of human nature sketched above dismal and shocking in the extreme.

you have to decide who you are, and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as thought I had a right to be here.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.

Because I'll never be any better. I'll never be any more normal and I'll never make the pain go away. Never ever ever.