Quotes About Acceptance

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

As my mother once said to me, 'They're quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

Steven Spielberg's mother, who said to E.T., I don't care where you're from, you're here and you're gonna get bar mitzvahed! Never got a dinner!

I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.

What brings me the most joy is stories about progressive thinking. When a mother or father accepts their child for whoever they are... when goodness prevails... blah blah blah. I'm a cheese ball.

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send... and you must live.

I take every opportunity to tell people how happy my mother is to be dead.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.

I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.