Quotes About Individuality

I look at Barack [Obama], he's slim like my father, and Michelle's [Obama] full figured like my mother. And I just love it.

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

When I first colored my hair, my mother loved it. I got kicked out of school when I was 15, just for my hair.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

I hate my jaw. I don't know if it's my dad's - I think I'm more like my mother, my littlest sister looks exactly like my dad and my middle sister is a mixture of the two.

You know who you belong to, Jack?""Yeah.""Yourself."He's wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.

My mother was so stylish, but she never pushed that on me. She always thought I looked cool.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

I think I would probably die without my eyeliner, but besides that I'm pretty basic.

If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.