“The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.”
Source: Nature
“Like my mom always says, know your worth. Make them work for it.”
Source: The Play
“Get out," Emilia growled, in a voice she had never heard come from her throat. "I am more than this. It does not matter what you see when you look at me, because you will never know me the way I know myself. And even if I am the only person in the world with that knowledge, it does not make it any less real.”
Source: By Any Other Name
“Our society doesn't actually benefit from our healing, from a Black woman recognizing her innate worth and living from that truth.”
Source: Black Girls Breathing: Heal from Trauma, Combat Chronic Stress, and Find Your Freedom
“You can't use a new word to replace an old one without it holding the exact same correlation, segregation and complacency that the original term was associated with. Instead of the 1930s mindset of 'People with Asperger's are worthy of survival, but those who have autism are not,' we now see a twenty-first century version of that: 'People who are high-functioning are worthy of survival, but those who are low functioning...' It's just a more modernised, accepted vocabulary. Instead of 'worthy of survival', our new language is being 'worthy' in capitalism and 'worthy' of support.”
Source: Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
“...Your worth is found in God and who He says you are, not in the world and its ever-changing opinions.”
Source: Novelists in November: A Wild Blue Wonder Press Anthology
“I was something else and that something was less than a chicken sitting in the sun on a tub”
Source: Beloved
“In democracy, quality means quantity; it is not about what kind of people gather around an idea, but how many. Similarly, it's not how deep the idea is, but how many it attracts.”
“a dead chicken is worth more than a beggar. If there was a dead chicken on the road, people would fight for it. But a dead beggar? They’d all run off and hide, afraid they might have to do some work.”
Source: The Fugitive
“If words could water, I wonder what mine would do — blossom flowers or burn gardens?”
Source: The Weight of Tender Things