Quotes About Self-expression

I'm never going to search for anyone's acceptance. I'm just going to be me, and people are eventually going to have to accept it.

There's not any subject the public doesn't know about me. I don't have secrets, and this is so liberating because this makes me free.

The overwhelming majority of my material has very little to do with my weight. It's certainly not the crux of my material.

There's this belief sometimes from people who haven't lived the trans experience that's just like, 'You should tell everyone. You owe it to them.' But the truth is, you don't know how people are going to respond. And many people don't even have the language to talk about what their trans experience is, or what it could be.

Nobody owes anything to anybody. You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and if you don't know somebody, then why would you explain to them how you live your life?

Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that's fine. I'm just going to keep being myself and living my life. That's all I can do.

I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.

When you are yourself, there is no wrong and there is no right, because being authentic and true to who you are and owning it is all anyone could ever ask of you.

In high school, I listened to Lady Gaga and I was really obsessed with just being who you are and owning that experience - she was a really big inspiration in that aspect to me and my friends, who were young and growing up, and making our way through the city and the world.

I am Shangela, I'm a working girl professional who owns her truth.

If I find a dress I really like and it happens to be a bit short, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. The thing about going to Oxford is it does give you the confidence to be how you want to be.

Because of the pace of daytime, you don't necessarily have time to work every detail of your character, so you have to bring a lot of it yourself.

Just don't let anyone judge you. Move at your own pace. Do things the way you want, and if people don't get it immediately, then make them understand.

I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.

Some people are really good at packaging themselves, but that's not really me.

Now on 'Bachelor Pad' it is true colors - no best foot forward anymore, everybody is really themselves.

I agree the SS 2014 collection from my own line comprising knee pads and polka dots didn't feel too good but I'm proud of the fact that it was original.

I never wanted to be Keith Richards or Jimmy Page.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.

I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

I'm probably not going to shed all the pageant girl, because that's who I am. If you don't like it, that's too damn bad.