I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I
learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very
important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if
you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and
you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd
known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who
you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to
yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see
our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our
faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can
ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in
one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the
way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them
as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or
too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you
can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think
about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and
sure as hell we should never teach
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