Quotes about Acceptance

The preachers who preach the beauty of truth, honesty and a useful, helpful life, I am with, head, heart and hand. The preachers who declare that there can be no such thing as a beautiful life unless it will accept superstition, I am against, tooth, claw, club, tongue and pen.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

When you understand why you were born, you can handle whatever comes your way. You stop running from your past, from your pain, and from your mistakes.

Never be ashamed of honest tears.

Do battle against prejudice and discrimination wherever you find it.

Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy

My message to blacks was: "It is time to stop hating who you are. God created you black—love yourself, love your hands and face, big nose and lips, for that is the only way you can love God. Blackness is God's gift to humanity.

Faith is born out of suffering, and suffering is faith's most powerful contradiction. This is the Christian dilemma. The only meaningful Christian response is to resist unjust suffering and to accept the painful consequence of that resistance.

Norman Cousins said, "Death is not the enemy, living in constant fear of it is.

Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.