“I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.”
“I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.”
“I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.”
“I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.”
“Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten”
“I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.”