Quotes About Acceptance

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237

Like I said...fine with me.

And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise

no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.

I wish I could be traveling with her, but thank God she able to do it. Sometimes I feel mad at her. Feel like I could scratch her hair right off her head. But then I think, Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take away none of her rights.

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.

Shug Avery sat up in bed a little today. I wash and comb out her hair. She got the nottiest, shortest, kinkiest hair I ever saw, and I loves every strand of it.

I feel peace with the world.

First time I think about the world. What the world got to do with anything, I think. Then I see myself sitting there quilting tween Shug Avery and Mr ——. Us three set together gainst Tobias and his fly speck box of chocolate. For the first time in my life, I feel just right.

Choose someone to love who wouldn't even hear of it.

She can have them, Mama, she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her.

He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man? I blow my nose. take off they pants, I say, and men look like frogs to me. No matter how you kiss 'em, as far as I'm concern, frogs is what they stay.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

As you sit, make peace also with the reality that, after you die, it won't matter to you how you are remembered; you will not be here to experience it. All the grand things that you do or say, all the skyscrapers you build and cover with gold, your elegant tombstone, all will be completely forgotten eventually. Even your children, and their children, too, will be forgotten. That being so, perhaps it is best to begin to erase your presence well before you leave the scene.

Tashi knows she is learning a way of life she will never live.

Si viene, yo feliz. Si no, contenta. Y entonces caigo en que puede que ésta sea la lección que yo tenía que aprender.

He love looking at Shug. I love looking at Shug. But Shug don't love looking at but one of us. Him. But that the way it spose to be. I know that. But if that so, why my heart hurt me so?

There's no return from this, no way we will ever come back together again. She tried to accept this clarity as a gift.

And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.