Quotes About Self-expression

I don't care what you think, so it's perfectly ok.

You don't try to be anyone else and that is a very hard thing in this world. It may seem unimportant right now when fitting in would be so much easier. But later you'll see. Being who you are is everything.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

I have no profession. It is another example of my decadence. My attitude - quite an indefensible one - is that so long as I am no trouble to any one I have a right to do as I like. I know I ought to be getting money out of people, or devoting myself to things I don't care a straw about, but somehow, I've not been able to begin." "You are quite fortunate, it is quite a wonderful opportunity, the possession of leisure.

I don't believe in suiting my conversation to my company

It is only that people are far more different than is pretended. All over the world men and women are worrying because they cannot develop as they are supposed to develop. Here and there they have the matter out, and it comforts them.

China puts her hand on my palm. Her fingernails are baby blue with miniature clouds airbrushed at the tips. She saved three weeks of allowance for that sky.

the sun had tanned her so that the rich velvety blackness of her skin glistened and she felt so much herself on those days of Carnival, soaked so deeply with a sense of her own beauty, that after the festival, she continued to keep her hair in the same fashion and wear her skin with the same pride, the result being that men took her for a foreign woman

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.

Dilini bilmedi?in bir yerde a?lamak fenad?r. Çünkü seni, senin dilinde susturacak kimse yoktur.

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

They're not women's clothes. They're my clothes. I bought them.

This is not a game of Who The Fuck Are You.

You know, it is for this reason that all this black, white, Armenian, Turkish, Greek, Jewish, etc., etc., etc., never carried any meaning for me. The question is how to fix ourselves. Give birth to ourselves. To make us live free of all these swaddling clothes, free of these habits.

Always be yourself. Unless you can be a mermaid, then be a mermaid.

Keep about the body congenial companionship, or make self express congeniality in whatever environ or sphere of activity the period may carry the body.

I really thought I could give it up... But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

You can have anything you want if you dress for it.

You can do anything you want in life if you dress for it.