Quotes About Individuality

Sometimes what other people want is wantable, briefly, before dissolving in the face of your own wants.

It was only a motorcycle but it felt like a mode of being.

Instead of imposing narrow and arbitrary definitions of Blackness on one another and alienating those who do not measure up, create spaces that allow people to be Black in their own way so they can contribute to our collective advancement.

Assess the rightness of a potential partner on his own terms and not just by comparing him to the ones before him - especially if they broke your heart.

I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

Everyone's got their own way of loving. There's no such thing as 'supposed to

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

After all these years of listening it seems to me that the essential quality of the human soul is uniqueness. Each of us is one of a kind. None of us has existed in the history of the human race before.

I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.

I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.

Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay its true color.

Be yourself and you will find, who minds doesn't matter and who matters won't mind.

When we invest ourselves in worrying about what other people think, we lose touch with what we stand for. By seeking others' approval and trying to be perfect at everything we do, we disconnect from our internal compass.

Theodore Roosevelt's quote: "Comparison is the thief of joy.

When we invest ourselves in worrying about other people think, we lose touch with what we stand for. By seeking others' approval and trying to be perfect at everything we do, we disconnect from our internal compass.

she's sad a lot. She's sad in the way Laura wears glasses and Max has freckles and Beth is retarded. There's no reason, it's just the way it is.

You are more than your job title.

I was lonely. I felt it deeply and permanently, that this state of being on my own might never disappear. But I welcomed the lonliness, which had everything to do with being anonymous. It's never lonliness that nibbles away at a person's insides, but not having room inside themselves to be comfortably alone.

Every person—including you—has been given a gift by God. Every gift is of immense value, no matter how it might compare to someone else's gifts. No one got a cheap or valueless gift from God. Every gift has the capacity to multiply (and is meant to do so). The gifts are essentially "on loan," meant to be stewarded.

People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

Even if a poem is beautiful and memorable, it's not like an advertising jingle or propaganda, which attempt to convince and control. Poems seek to confuse, disabuse, enlarge understanding, and make people ask questions and think for themselves.

I have no lover, not even my love. I have no other, not even I.