Quotes About Self-expression

I don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.

I'm not trying to clean my image to make anyone happy.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

I think it's somebody else's job to decide what my image is.

I don't care about my image.

I'm always building images. Even when I go out and put a look together, it's in my head the whole day, like, how I'm going to create this whole story. But I'm never satisfied; it's always a work in progress no matter what. Every day is working.

I met over a hundred preteens who told me their stories. I asked them how they felt about their femininity in today's society. I wanted to know how they dealt with their self-image at a time when social media is so important, and they have access to so much information and so many images.

I'm a GQ fashionista, imagine that? I don't take it seriously.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

I'm trying everything. But voice work is the best thing you ever imagined. It's not about how you look, and you can go to work in your PJs.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

I never even imagined having my own shoe.

It's something I've enjoyed since being a kid, the fantasy of it, the imagining I'm someone other than who I am. I've always felt claustrophobic in one sense of identity. If anything, I've had to work to develop a sense of my own identity. I used to really hate it when people defined me.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

Too many girls try to imitate others and don't think about what makes them unique. The best part of a girl is what makes her who she is as an individual.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

People have always tried to imitate, but at the end of the day, no one can do me better than I can do me, you know?

I feel like I was trying to imitate other people or trying to be something I wasn't.

I can't speak for everybody, and I don't want to say it for an entire culture, but for me, coming from an immigrant family, it's very difficult to go find your voice, which requires a lot of failure.

I am more than an immigration activist.

I am imperfect. I am funny. I am real.

Imperfection is fine.