Quotes About Self-expression

I'm the one who's always kissing all the boys and stuff.

I believe in just being yourself, and the whole kit and caboodle comes with it.

My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.

If I were really being myself. I'd just curl up in the corner and knit.

I'm learning to communicate honestly and knock it off with the hiding.

It's not lost on me to have the ability to be wearing custom Dior or Gucci, with my box braids or my bantu knots. It's another opportunity to show that Black girls belong in these places and that what I naturally bring as a Black girl belongs as well.

You have to know yourself so well and be able to put it on whatever display you want to put it on and be confident in that and be fine with it.

Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I want to be me - and people know it's me. I don't want: 'He's trying to act like Kobe' or 'His answers are like something Kobe would've said.' Nah. If it's me, I'm going to say it.

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

Some of us talk about other people and what they do and la la la. But I'm not that person.

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'

Why does everyone need to have a label?

People can label me whatever they like. I don't really care any more.

I have never gotten into the label thing.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.

If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

I'm 100 million percent not homophobic. I despise that label being attached to me.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of easier, I guess.

It's hard for me to label myself or characterize myself.

I believe that if you want gender, then you can have it. If you want to label yourself, then sure. If you want to use history to describe who you are, then there is nothing wrong with that. But don't limit me on the way that you limit yourself.