Quotes About Acceptance

I love myself the way I am, but people will always message me about other people with vitiligo who cover their skin. 'Winnie Harlow, you need to tell them that they need to love themselves the way they are and stop covering their skin!' No! If that's what makes them comfortable and what makes them happy, let them be.

What's wrong with being angry? There's a lot of stuff to be angry about. If you're angry, anger covers pain. I don't know if you can truly deal with pain.

We need to learn to live with Covid.

I love my cracked eyes.

You know what I didn't realize at the time is a really good blessing, is that I was a really crappy player.

If you considered the risks of everything in life you wouldn't leave your house. But I am a father and a husband. I don't do these things for the hell of it. At the same time you accept the risks and acknowledge that there is a risk, that there could be a big crash or worse.

I don't crave acceptance in the classical world.

Things die for a reason, and in Bungle's case, it was a lot of reasons. It was great while it lasted but not something I'd go crawling back to.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself.

I'm too old to do crazy things anymore.

If you're going to believe crazy things, people are going to laugh at you.

Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues creates a context in which it can seem like one.

I feel like that's what being creative is: It's you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it.

You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing.

Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.

Yes, I'm a personality. I accept that. O.K.? I understand it. But I'm a personality with credentials.

The most important value I've taught my children is respect for every creed, colour or race. When we bleed, we bleed the same blood. I've always taught my kids never to look down on anyone or to not have anyone look down on them.

We've got to learn how to not look at creed or color. Look at how beautiful a bouquet of roses looks like - different color roses, all look beautiful. We have to learn how to let our beauty of the color of our roses shine to the world.

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

We, as a nation, have always worshipped cricket and cricket players, and even football. But kabaddi and kushti are seen fit only for villagers. That's changing now.

I was so fortunate to play my club cricket at Moseley Ashfield. We had loads of Asians, white players, black players. You grow up from that knowing it just doesn't matter what religion or culture people are into, everyone is different.

I was so happy when grown men cried watching my performance with my screen son Sanjay Suri in 'My Brother Nikhil.'

The thought of being a boy makes me cringe. I just couldn't do it.