Quotes About Self-expression

People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.

Smiling makes a huge difference. A lot of people walk the red carpet and try to be sexy. I don't do that; I always smile.

On social media, you have a mask on where you are smiling, but you're crying inside. And that was me.

Watch me on CNN/SI. Check out clips from 'Quite Frankly.' I've always been Stephen A. Smith. I've been this way since the day I was born.

I had a 'the Cure' hairstyle, bigger even than Robert Smith's for many years. I used to do jokes about it which went well, but which meant I had to keep sporting it long after it was fashionable.

My voice makes the genre because I sound like me on all my songs - I've made my own genre: Jorja Smith.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.

A writer appears in everything that he does. That said, I felt like writing characters with my own name, in fact, provided me with something of a smoke screen.

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

I refuse to do Snapchat. I'm not getting it, and I kind of like having mystery.

Share shame so you are not left alone with it. If you can't find another person, get a journal. I didn't say make a video on Snapchat. It's for you, not anyone else.

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

I'm more comfortable in heels than I am in sneakers.

When I'm in sneakers, it changes my body carriage. I feel more in my own skin.

My hubby is such a sneaker king... and I am a stiletto queen! He always wants to see me in sneakers, but I believe I can do anything in heels.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

You know, you cannot be comfortable on a high heel shoes the way you would be in sneakers. But, you know, not everyone wants to be on sneakers. Sneakers are for different purposes.

I went to high schools in four different countries. The gift is that you can constantly reinvent yourself. I still feel that freedom. One day, I'll wear a dress I got in India; the next, Converse sneakers and jeans.

I never wear sneakers. I don't feel comfortable in them.

When I started Instagram, I kind of just did what I like to do or to show the things I like, whether it be sneakers or weird flowers, have the little drops of myself and my style kind of fluidly throughout. That was really helpful in starting and carving out my own place.

I've never been the type of person that puts things on a shelf or, like, needs to clean my sneakers every day. I just wear what I like.

I wear chunky sneakers all the time. I cannot walk in heels.