Quotes About Self-expression

All I can do is be myself. I've had the grace to be able to do that. I walk into the studio and I think, 'Let some word that is heard be Thine.

When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

feet, what do i need you for if i have wings to fly?

Give me the raw materials; the black holes, The cold floors and confusion of needles-as-thoughts That make me feel myself, Over any stupefying potions That would turn me into someone else.

A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

I refuse to kneel before the sights you choose to see.

I am Savani.

Could you just call me Pigeon?" he asked the teacher when she read his name. "Does your mother call you Pigeon?" "No." "Then to me you are Paul." ... "Nathan Sutter," the teacher read. "My mother never calls me Nathan." "Is it Nate?" "She calls me Honeylips.

Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

I say that there is no role for women - there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.

I'm not odd! I'm beautiful and articulate

I'm pretty good at being me," I said. "I've had all these years to practice—I hardly ever get it wrong these days.

They will try," Jasnah said, "to define you by something you are not. Don't let them. I can be a scholar, a woman, a historian, a Radiant. People will still try to classify me by the thing that makes me an outsider. They want, ironically, the thing I don't do or believe to be the prime marker of my identity. I have always rejected that, and will continue to do so.

Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

Perhaps that was the advantage to persistently messy hair--he managed to make it go with anything.

He flopped down onto the deck beside her chair, rolling over and looking up. "Yeah, maybe. But it's nice to make people laugh at you for something you do, and not something you can't control. You know?

A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses it to be, but in the power to choose that role. It is amazing to me that I even have to make this point, as I see it as the very foundation of our conversation.

Intentarán definirte por medio de algo que no eres -dijo Jasnah-. No lo permitas. Yo puedo ser erudita, mujer, historiadora, Radiante. La gente seguirá intentando clasificarme por lo que me vuelve ajena a ellos. La ironía es que pretenden que lo que no soy, o aquello en lo que no creo, se mi principal seña de identidad. Siempre lo he rechazado, y voy a seguir haciéndolo.

But Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Steris!" he said. "You'll end up humiliating yourself." She closed her eyes. "Dear Lord Waxillium. Earlier, you spoke of the power of not caring about what others thought of you. Do you remember?" "Yes." "Well, you see," she said, opening her eyes and smiling, "I'm trying to practice that skill." She proceeded to vomit all over the table. *

No te preocupes si no das a la gente lo que quieren. Dale quien eres, y que eso sea suficiente.