Quotes About Self-expression

I've made it a point to be transparent on my social media and in everything that I present. I never want anyone to think that I'm too fluffy or too perfect.

Transparent' was my coming-out party.

If you see a bald bitch she's unloved. Or, she cut her hair off because she don't want to be loved. Or, she cut it off because she ran up on some rotten love.

We don't want you to answer all of our silly questions, Hank. We don't want you to solve all our problems. We're not broken, and you don't have to fix us. Okay?

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

People will die as they have lived, as themselves.

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be.

And I flat out refuse to have one of those lives that I wouldn't even want to read about.

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "completes what nature left unfinished.

That's not me talking, it's your inner voice. I'd attempt the accent, only I don't speak low self-esteem. It's a language I've never needed to learn.

My imprint is there for the world to see. I don't try to hide it with my hair or a high collar. When I got ready for school this morning, I kept thinking of Sean. How proud he appears. Unapologetic. And I want to be like that. I don't want to look cowed or ashamed. I may not want to be this, but I don't want to be that girl, either. I don't want to be afraid.

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn't exist anymore.

Author? Author? Did you write these legs?' 'Yes." 'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.

Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

Da leitura resulta a autoconfiança, da autoconfiança resulta a coragem de ter ideias próprias. Os homens não gostam necessariamente de mulheres que lêem.

How to escape the tyrannical demands that the state and Church seek to impose on me? How to protect that unique part of my soul against enforced submission to rules and measures dictated from outside?