I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.
None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters.
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc. ). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.
Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.
So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
What? I'm not ashamed to admit that random things remind me of Harry Potter.
Never be ashamed of what or how you feel. . . just be honest.
I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.
That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.