Quotes About Self-expression

I watched artists who blew up before me become parodies of themselves. I wasn't listening to people when they told me that I had nothing to say, and I can't listen to people now when they tell me I'm the bomb, even though I want to.

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.

I am allergic to metals, so, I am minimal on accessories. Also, I don't wear watches.

I think people are slowly realizing that don't have to be looking in a mirror to enjoy something. And they're realizing that watching a show with drag queens in it doesn't make you gay any more then listening to rap makes you black.

I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.

I'm not someone else's mouthpiece. I'm not carrying water for anyone - whether that's the GOP, Fox News, or Christianity. I'm not doing anyone else's dirty work.

I like looking cute. So I want to look cute in the water.

We lived by the water, and I was a pretty normal kid until my teenage years; then I dyed my hair pink and spiraled out of control.

At the end of the day, all I can be is me. I'm not John Cena. In my 30 years, I've never been John Cena. I don't even think about becoming him. I just want to be - I want to be Roman Reigns. I want to do things my way. I think that's why I'm in the deep water with Vince McMahon and 'The Authority'.

I want - no, I need - to see images of black girls and femmes twerking, slaying and primping, just as much as I need to see Symone Sanders bopping her head and Representative Maxine Waters reclaiming her time.

Call me Shaky, not Michael. I've been Shaky for so long it would be like calling Muddy Waters McKinley, wouldn't it?

I just got a body wave because I wanted it to look good when it was down.

I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself.

Now I have a standard for how I make sure people do not speak to me in a way that I feel uncomfortable with. When I was younger, I didn't have that. I was like, 'Try not to make waves.' I wanted everybody to like me, and so I stifled a lot of the discomfort that I had.

Call me curl-crazed, but there's just something about a head full of waves that can command any room and make any outfit more interesting.

I've been using the same hair wax for as long as I can remember. I'm not a gel guy, I'm not a perfume guy, not really into any of that.

That's the fantastic thing about having a beard. You don't have to do anything about it. I have a special wax that I use to shape it sometimes.

You got one life to live. So I'm living it the way I want to live it.

I'm just myself. That's the best way to put it.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

I'm just living my life the way I want to. I have the freedom to do that.