Quotes About Self-expression

I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.

That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.

My life feels so surreal. That's why I've made a shtick of being me.

The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state - it's not totally real. I'm always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.

I liked the idea of using this mega-star [Beyoncé ] to talk about all those things on the tiny scale of my life.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

The s - t I put on Instagram, in a lot of ways, I'm making fun of what it actually is. Some of the things I put on there are absolutely ridiculous because parts of my life are absolutely ridiculous.

I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

Following fashion trends, however ridiculous or uncomfortable.

We are all different, and should do what we can do te remain so.

Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."

I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?

I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.