Quotes About Individuality

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another.

Never be ashamed of who you are, your story, or how you react to situations. Don't ever be ashamed of how you communicate with people. Don't ever be ashamed of the person you are. Be you.

I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.

Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them.

It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

I want everyone who's listening to know who I am and not just see me as this singer. I want them to feel connected to my story.

Most of us have this story of not feeling comfortable because of how you were. Now they call it ADHD. I just knew I bounced all over the place. I'm glad I had ADHD... It's what makes us creative.

Anyone can write your own life story.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

I think that fashion, for a long time, has been in a prison. Without freedom. I think that without freedom, with rules, it's impossible to create a new story.

Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

If you can keep something very personal, like a song, like a color, like a story, deep in your heart, then nobody can destroy that. Nobody can destroy your imagination; nobody can destroy your love.

Not many things bug me, but if there's one thing that does, it's the idea that my story is a football fairytale.

I grew up in the Midwest, and I was a short, fat, little Jewish kid... but it was just different. People didn't understand, so I had to deal with it. One day, I physically dealt with it, and it never happened again. I'm not saying that's the way to do it, but you have to stand up for yourself, period, end of story.

I'm not interested in being the damsel in distress; I want someone who has her own storyline and her own mission - not a woman who, to use a comedy term, is just there to provide the feed line to someone else's joke.

Every good look needs a storyline.

I just follow what inspires me as an artist and a storyteller, and stay true to myself in my work.

I'm hardly a known name, but I don't want to go, like, 'Oh, people call me a storyteller comedian, let me just go up and just talk about my day.' I don't want that to happen.

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

I never wanted to be a brand director. I didn't want that kind of stamp. I wanted to be more like Pacino or Dustin Hoffman or Meryl Streep or De Niro - you know, a chameleon as a storyteller - because I love all kinds of movies.

I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things, so it is frustrating, to a degree, to be limited by other people's perceptions of me, but at the same time, it is true that I am a black guy, and, you know, it's like I'm rooted in but not bound by.

I find it quite boring when you're listening to radio, and it's the same kind of voice that's on every song on the radio. You can't really tell a lot about that singer as a storyteller and about the singer from what they're singing.

I learned from the best storytellers in the world: Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Ne-Yo, Michael Jordan, Vin Diesel, RuPaul.