Quotes About Pride

Well, they got that habit from us. We always wanted to be seen to be right. To be on the right side of an issue. More so even than doing anything. Being right was always the most important thing.

things that came naturally to females did not impress my mother, not at all. In her view you might as well be proud of breathing or walking or giving birth. Our

These forms of criticism that make black women the privileged readers of a black woman writer go against Hurston's own grain. She saw things otherwise: "When I set my hat at a certain angle and saunter down Seventh Avenue. . . . the cosmic Zora emerges. . . . How can anybody deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me!" This is exactly right. No one should deny themselves the pleasure of Zora—of whatever color or background or gender.

Her subject was pride, in all its forms.

Pasakyk, kuo didžiuojiesi, ir aš pasakysu, ko tau tr?ksta. Tai kasdienin? m?s? duona.. Neišman?lis dažnai prisistato kaip žinovas, žmogžudys - kaip pagailos vertas žmogus, nusid?jelis - kaip šventeiva, lupikautojas - kaip nusižemin?s žmogus, storžievis - kaip elegantas, o silpnaprotis - kaip intelektualas

Ne?manoma prad?ti racionalaus dialogo su žmogumi apie tik?jimus ir s?vokas, jeigu jis j? ne?gijo protu. Ir nesvarbu, apie k? mes kalbame: apie Diev?, ras? ar pasididžiavim? savo t?vyne

Small country, small men.

Don't apologize. It's a sign of weakness. Captain Nathan Brittles, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

De man dat built things oughta boss it. Let colored folks build things too if dey wants to crow over somethin'.

Naw, Ah ain't no young gal no mo' but den Ah ain't no old woman neither. Ah reckon Ah looks mah age too. But Ah'm uh woman every inch of me, and Ah know it. Dat's uh whole lot more'n you kin say. You big-bellies round here and put out a lot of brag, but 'tain't nothin' to it but yo' big voice. Humph! Talkin' 'bout me lookin' old! When you pull down yo' britches, you look lak de change uh life.

But the whole town got vain over it

Zora Neale Hurston

She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around.

You mean uh whole town uh nothin' but colored folks? Who bosses it, den? Dey bosses it deyself. You mean dey runnin' de town 'thout de white folks? Sho is. Eben got a mayor and corporation. Ah sho wants tuh see dat sight.

Ah ain't got tuh do but two things--stay black and die, Sister Berry snapped.

Ah'm uh bitch's baby round lady people.

I began to worry a bit. Ella kept on hurling slurs. So I said, Come on, Big Sweet, we got to go to home. Nope, Ah ain't got to do nothin' but die and stay black.

As citizens and children of India - whether we live at home or abroad - we must ask ourselves how we can add to our country's pride.

Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.

I have a CBE - which I accepted because I knew how much my mum, who made it all possible, would have loved it.

I'm not good at accepting help.

I'm not one who's big on accolades and all those things. I did my job and I'm proud of what I did and how I did it.

Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment.

Being the first in my family to go to college, I believe, is my greatest accomplishment. It's not my accomplishment; it's my family's accomplishment.