Quotes About Acceptance

Aw, git reconciled!.. You can't git her wid no fish sandwich.

Put me down easy, Janie, Ah'm a cracked plate.

Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what it was. But mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods—come and gone with the sun.

Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass. It had been a long time since she had remembered. Perhaps she'd better go look. She went over to the dresser and looked hard at her skin and features. The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place. She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was there.

So I do not pray. I accept the means at my disposal for working out my destiny. It seems to me that I have been given a mind and will power for that very purpose.

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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk.

Don't make God look so foolish, finding fault with everything he made.

Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn't know Ah wuzn't white till Ah was round six years old.

Aw, don't make God look so foolish, findin' fault wid everything He made

Zora, why do you think dese li'l slim women was put on earth? Couldn't tell you to save my life. Well, dese slim ones was put here to beautify de world. De big ones, musta been put here for de same reason. Ah, naw, Zora. Ah don't agree wid you there. Well then, what was they put here for? To show dese slim girls how far they kin stretch without bustin'.

I don't see midgets as abnormal people.

I think I was quite abnormal, in that it took me all of a day to get over the fact that I had MS.

If you're different in any way at school,then you're going to get a bit of abuse. You learn to deal with it in a way where people don't come back at you again.

I was spectacularly average at school, while my two brothers did really well academically. But my dad never said I didn't try hard enough. He knew I did my best.

I was 12 years old when I first moved to New York, and at that age, you're trying to find yourself. It was hard being so different from everyone I was around, and I felt that nobody could really understand me because everyone was American, and I was this little English girl with an accent.

Christine Boar, who gave me my first screen test at MTV, saw something in me others hadn't. She liked my accent and didn't ask me to change it.

It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.

'Good enough is good enough' - that's never been acceptable for me.