Quotes About Individuality

Every human, we all have different genetic backgrounds, we all have lived separate lives. But our genomes are greater than 99 percent similar.

There's a societal push for conformity in all rways," he said. "There's less tolerance of difference. And so maybe for some people having a label is better. It can confer a sense of hope and direction.

Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light. Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light. Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.

Everybody's serious but me.

I'm not crazy, but several of my other personalities are.

Some people are permanently broken. Like Humpty Dumpty, no one can put you back together again. ...But I'm not broken. I'm exactly the way I want to be.

I recently moved to Los Angeles and found out there's an entire city of people who never "fit in!" It's the "land of misfit toys." How great is that? So for those of you out there who are "unique," congratulations on recognizing it, and get comfortable with it, because it's a part of you and one day you'll stumble upon people who totally get you.

Something about the turbulence of adolescence makes you want to do something creative...I thought as I got older I would stop writing about it, but I find adolescence, and popular depictions of it, very interesting. I like to see where my own life intersects or diverges from notions of what a teenager is supposed to be, or what a black person is supposed to be, or a woman.

We don't owe nobody nuthin', and we don't make no deals, we're swingin' chicks on motors, and we're man-eaters on wheels!

Each soul, each person, has to find their own way - learn their own lessons ... It's all those rough bits that make us stronger.

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman.

The world would be a boring place if we were all the same.

There might be bits and pieces of us that I don't like or that drive me up the wall, but at the end of the say, it's who we are. I'm going to make the best of what we have.

It's okay. We're all messed up in our own special way.

figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one. —Calamity Jane

In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO READ. :)

But I kept it to myself--maybe because I didn't think it mattered, but probably because, in a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that only I had read.