Quotes About Individuality

Perhaps eccentricity is an area I haven't explored sufficiently.

We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

If I ever coo at a man, Ray thought privately, I hope someone shoots me.

owning your sexuality is a big part of equality.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men and people in general.

GEORGE : Oh, don't be so proud of yourself, Bennie—just because you look eccentric. BENEATHA: How can something that's natural be eccentric? GEORGE: That's what being eccentric means—being natural. Get dressed.

BENEATHA How can something that's natural be eccentric? GEORGE That's what being eccentric means—being natural.

TSHEMBE Perhaps my obsessions have made me myopic! In this light, for instance, I really cannot tell you from Major Rice! (Peering close into the other's face, he grins) You all really do look alike, you know Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Curly Girl: It's more than just hair, it's an attitude.

Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself . . . to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was." —ALICE WALKER

Every day is a new day and you've got to just go with the flow. Accepting yourself as you are and letting go of what society says you should be are first steps toward freeing yourself. "Free your hair and the rest will follow

Marriage, she felt, was a fine arrangement generally, except that one never got it generally. One got it very, very specifically.

In general, people were not road maps. People were not hieroglyphs or books. They were not stories. A person was a collection of accidents. A person was an infinite pile of rocks with things growing underneath.

in an attempt at extroversion, she had worn a tunic with large slices of watermelon depicted on the front. What had she been thinking of?

I loved to say quasi. I was saying it now a lot, instead of sort of, or kind of, and it had become a tic. I am quasi ready to go, I would announce. Or, I'm feeling a bit quasi today. Murph called me Quasimodo. Or Kami-quasi. Or wild and quasi girl.

You live if you dance to the voice that ails you.

She wore a lot of gray-green corduroy. She had been under the impression that it brought out her eyes, those shy stars.

Through college she had been a feminist—basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.

I nodded, trying to imagine the very particular sadness of a vanished childhood yogurt now found only in France. It was a very special sort of sadness, individual, and in its inability to induce sympathy, in its tuneless spark, it bypassed poetry and entered science.

This is not a restaurant. Restaurants serve different things from this.

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

We all go Do, Re, Mi, but you've gotta find all the other notes yourself.

For reasons I have yet to define, Signor Arpelli stood out from his colleagues. The curled brim of his hat, perhaps. A certain mingling of gravity and levity- I thought the masks of Janus had merged in his eyes.