Quotes About Individuality

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have. What occurs to people when they read Kurt is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.

The biggest gift of being unambiguously mentally ill is the time I've saved myself trying to be normal.

Today it's nice to be able to entertain odd thoughts without having to marry them all. Thank God. I can think whatever the hell I want. Entertaining odd thoughts won't make you crazy. Refusing to entertain odd thoughts won't make you well.

I'm a peacock Captain! You gotta let me fly!

If you're going to survive in this world, here's what you need to know: you are who you are, not what people think you are.

You need your own strength in this life. Your own purpose. You can't simply live for others.

But what if there is nothing "wrong" with you at all?

It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.

Why did god create a dual universe? So he might say 'Be not like me. I am alone.' And it might be heard.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?

You've got the makings of a first-class dwarf!

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don't like being paternalism and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).

I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don't like being paternalised and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

All I want to be is normally insane.

We only have so many faces in our pockets

the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don't! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.

I hate when a man feels I'm obligated to disclose my marital status to somebody I don't even know. Even this bullshit about status itself as if married and spinster are the only two choices for defining myself. Or because I'm a woman I'm supposed to have a status at all.

She not no fool, Lilith tell herself. She not a sleeping princess and Robert Quinn is not no king or prince. He just a man with broad shoulders and black hair who call her lovey and she like that more than her own name. She don't want the man to deliver her, she just want to climb in the bed and feel he wrap himself around her.

And Smoke Girl. He who was mine said, One of them must have a name from where I come from. One must remind me of me. So he named Smoke Grl Khamseen, for the wind that blows fifty days.