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.

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

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.

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.

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

Be what they do not want: Be thoughtful. Be skilled at loving. Be of good heart. Be of the world tribe.

How do we make new and restorative of soul the old pain? How do we learn to carry with grace and humor all that has happened to us?

You telling me I won't even be able to love my own say, say Miss Eleanor Jane. No, say Sofia. That's not what I'm telling you. I'm telling you I won't be able to love your own son. You can love him just as much as you want to. But be ready to suffer the consequences. That's how the colored live.

They think, after the biggest of the white folks no longer on the earth, the only way to stop making somebody the serpent is for everybody to accept everybody else as a child of God, or one mother's children, no matter what they look like or how they act.

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Try not to hold her fears against her. At the end she understood, and believed. And forgave-whatever there was to forgive.

Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. 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.