Quotes About Individuality

We should all just do what makes us happy and be open.

I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.

I wasn't a part of any real clique at school but had a select few friends that I would open up to.

I've always been really open about my sexuality and who I am. I never thought a big coming out was necessary.

The mystery is cool, but, at the same time, if I'm trying to empower people, I have to be an open book. You can see my flaws, the mistakes I've made. From that, make your own judgment and move on your own path.

We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

I am only really attracted to people who are very open-minded and embrace and celebrate people who live outside the gender norm.

My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.

I have the armour of self-worth that comes from having open-minded parents who felt there was nothing wrong with me.

Not accepting where I came from, and who I am as a person, the voice, you know, the appearance, the everything. 'Drag Race' has opened my eyes to see there's so much more than where I came from and to, like, not hold that against myself.

So when I went to Arista, I had a period of writing where I suddenly was unrestricted. I wasn't writing for a band for the first time. It opened up a whole other arena for me to work within.

Everybody's opening up their own lane and it just makes you feel O.K. to showcase what you've got.

I'd say I'm not openly gay. I'm just gay.

I really do feel like an unremarkable person trying really hard, openly, to do something interesting and to make something of value and pleasure.

I openly say I've had my lips done, I've been getting my lips done for years now.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.

I love to operate in a world that values things outside of beauty. It's just more what I feel comfortable doing.

A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.

I need to point out that African-Americans are not a monolith and do not operate in groupthink.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.