Quotes About Individuality

Babies are such blank slates. They don't come into this world with the assumptions their parents have made, or the promises their church will give, or the ability to sort people into groups they like and don't like.

My sister likes to play the victim. We've had some pretty heated exchanges about that before. If you don't want to be seen as a stereotype, then the way I see it, don't be one. But to my sister, that means playing a white man's game, and being who they want her to be, instead of being unapologetically herself.

Everyone comes with a label, it's up to you to peel it off.

I wondered how two boys - like Shay and me - could begin at the same point and somehow take turns that would lead us to be such a different men.

Boy, she told Louie, don't you let nobody tell you who you can't be.

Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

There are nonbinary people, or enbys, who see gender as a spectrum—which it is—and want to express themselves anywhere along that spectrum as an act of freedom. Sometimes people call that genderfucking or genderqueer.

This is true of anyone: the music we choose is a clear reflection of who we really are.

It makes me wonder how I'd be treated if I were like everyone else. Maybe I'm a pretty rotten person, not that anyone would ever have the guts to tell me this to my face. Maybe everyone thinks I'm rude or ugly or stupid but they have to be nice because it could be the circumstances of my life that make me that way.

I started to wonder what it might have felt like to live your life in a place someone else had carved.

you have to find that rare someone for whom you're not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction--not because you're who they need you to be, or who they want you to be...just because you're you.

there is such a difference between living the life you are expected to live and living the life you want to live.

You can take the pink hair dye out of the girl, but you never lose those roots. I took another sip of the martini. You don't know me. At the end of the bar, the other customer lifted his face to Peter Jennings and smiled. Maybe, Seven said, but neither do you.

You're not hiding, but you're sitting in a gay bar at dinnertime. You're not hiding, but you're wearing that suit like it's armor.

It's just how she is made, and if that isn't everyone's standard of perfect, then maybe they just have to revise their damn standard.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask . . . with nothing beneath it?

If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own? One

What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else? -Plain Truth

I'm not going to fit into that English courtroom. I'm going to stand out, with how I dress, and how I think, because I'm not English. I don't know about murder and witness and juries, but I do know how to fix things in my life when they're messed up. If you make a mistake and repent, you're forgiven. You're welcomed back. If you lie, and keep lying, there won't be a place for you. -Katie, Plain Truth

He formed a Masturbation Club and didn't allow anybody else to join.

Lumea este alc?tuit? din toate soiurile de oameni. O armat? e alc?tuit? din mai pu?ine soiuri.

It takes all kinds of people to make a world. Fewer kinds to make an army.

I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.

It's different for girls.