Quotes About Self-expression

We each have the responsibility of living our own lives, determining our individual needs, and arranging to get those needs met. We cannot live through a partner, nor can we assume that just because we have a lover, all our needs should automatically be satisfied.

If you don't want to play tennis with me, I'll ask somebody else, and if you don't want to play bondage games with me, somebody else will—our relationship will not be less for it. What we share is valuable for what we share. Period.

When we begin to question all the ways we have been told we ought to be, we can begin to edit and rewrite our old tapes. By breaking the rules, we both free and empower ourselves.

We are paving new roads across new territory. We have no culturally approved scripts for open sexual lifestyles; we need to write our own. To write your own script requires a lot of effort, and a lot of honesty, and is the kind of hard work that brings many rewards. You may find the right way for you and three years from now decide you want to live a different way—and that's fine. You write the script, you get to make the choices, and you get to change your mind, too.

This hard work is well worth it because it is the way you become free to choose how you want to live and love, own your life, and become truly the author of your experience.

GREAT SLUTS are made, not born.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.

For many gay men and women the idea that sexuality is fluid and that what goes one way may go another (what goes up must come down) is an attack on their person.

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You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is you-er than you. Shout aloud, I am glad to be what I am. Thank goodness I'm not a ham, or a clam, or a dusty old jar of gooseberry jam. I am what I am, what a great thing to be. If I say so myself, happy everyday to me!

There is no one alive who is Youer than You!

I'll be who I am and say what I feel because people who mind don't matter and people who matter don't mind.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because in the end those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter.

Please start doin you. I been doin me. And Im a staple in my city, you can never ruin me.

Its my birthday, Ill get high if I want to.

These days all the girls is down to roll. I hit the strip club and all them bitches find a pole.

Fuck you pussy ass hater you should do you, you aint heard of me then you should go and get a Blues Clue.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I've pretty much always had the same haircut my entire life.

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.