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Quotes About Self-expression

children s are not the coloring books where you can fill your favorite colors
~ Khaled Hosseini
Thalia, I want you to know that you don't have to wear that thing in this house anymore. Not on my account. Nor his. Do it only if it suits you. I have no more to say about this business.
~ Khaled Hosseini
No longer did she look like a shy little maid who was trained to censor her thought before it reached her mouth. These past few days had turned her into a reserved yet intelligent young woman.
~ Kien Nguyen
There's a great feeling of relief and catharsis when you manage to get something that's been buried or hidden out onto the page. And such a process, whether or not it eventually results in a poem, helps to integrate that part of the self.
~ Kim Addonizio
I opine-I think you're a woman of your world,' he said from the far end of the couch. 'I would have a hard time seeing you pressed and powdered, dreading a life of servitude under the name of marriage. You'd die in that mold. I like you as you are, fiery and ill tempered.
~ Kim Harrison
All right, all right! Don't lose your panties. No, wait. You don't have any, do you?
~ Kim Harrison
My name is Rachel Morgan," Al said, mimicking my voice perfectly. "I like black panties, action movies, and being on top.
~ Kim Harrison
Emojin stopped, turned, and nailed him with her glare. "Because she's making this one piece all she'll ever need to show the world who she is instead of coloring her body with random images and needing thirty expressions to show her soul.
~ Kim Harrison
I expected it would be the same for me, and I wouldn't show up as a wolf in black tights and a lacy pair of underwear —as amusing as that would be. No way was I going to show them I was a nasty pasty color with freckles.
~ Kim Harrison
Never hide who you are
~ Kim Harrison
Hysterics won't help." "Don't tell me what to do!" I exclaimed, my knees starting to shake. "I think best when I'm having hysterics. Just shut up and let me have them!
~ Kim Harrison
Time, plenty of it came to the rescue here: Kelly was to engage in self-expression. In Jake's vocabulary this was a vague term applied to activities like swearing and children's art but in the present context it evidently meant something more specific. The girl at once left her chair, sat down on one of the more affluent patches of carpet and clasped her knees.
~ Kingsley Amis
Wie kam ein Mensch überhaupt dazu, so auszusehen wie er? Die große Nase war viel zu unbescheiden für sein geringes Amt im Leben; außerdem ließ er sich den ganzen Winter über die Haare nicht schneiden, was seinem Kopf von Woche zu Woche mehr Künstlerisches verlieh.
~ Knut Hamsun
Blah, blah, blah. Demon boy, I can't speak that language. Furthermore, I don't want to pollute my brain by learning it. So it's time for you to learn mine. First lesson-I'm Say-been. I'm oft described as byoo-tee-full and mah-jest'ick.
~ Kresley Cole
Oh, what I know about myself isn't really worth telling, said Anne eagerly. If you'll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you'll think it ever so much more interesting.
~ L. M. Montgomery
What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.
~ Paul Klee
I have an interesting relationship with my voice. I give myself tons of freedom in how to engage with my voice because I respect it a lot.
~ Arca
I was fascinated to think about a place where men could be the mothers and I thought of my own song-writing and I decided to have a relationship with their daughters.
~ Tori Amos
Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.
~ Rajneesh
He's mad at me.""For what?""For not being like him."Eleanor looked dubious. "Has he been mad at you for the last sixteen years?""Basically.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
~ Muhammad Ali
Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.
~ Kodo Sawaki
You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.
~ Rick Warren
I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.
~ Muhammad Ali