‘You can’t get to ’wonderful’ without passing through ‘all right’. And when you get to all right’ you should look around and familiarize yourself with things, because that may be what you are capable of. And that’s all right.
My grandmother always had the biggest influence in me as far as my opinion of myself. When everybody said ‘Billy stutters and he’s never gonna grow’. My grandmother said ‘Billy’s cool, maybe he’s got something you guys don’t see. My grandmother always let me know that it was all right to be me.
That while I had something about me that was different that if I figured it out I could some way to make it okay. You know, I’m a big fan of ‘all right’.
WE are all accidents of birth. We don’t chose what we look like, we don’t chose how gifted we are going to be How tall, how strong. We don’t get to choose anything.
Dignity is the operative word, whatever is wrong with me , if I can keep from telling you I will “ Bill Withers
