Quotes About Self-expression

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

You're not going to sniff my ass, are you? Like a dog?

I lied as a nightingale sings, ecstatically, self-obliviously; reveling in the new life-harmony which I was creating.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself- in defiance of all the world's muteness.

Readers are born free and ought to remain free.

The black women of America have as much right to all rights as white women have, without putting on any foreign robes to get them. I love Africa, but I was born in Florida, U.S.A., America. Of my African blood I am proud, but I want American rights. Of my black face I have no shame, therefore I have the right to want the right to show my face anyplace in America any other folks show their face.

I'm like that old mule- Black- and don't give a damn! You got to take me Like I am.

Bartender, tell this man to vacate my person.

The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.

So that's who you want me to be? The innocent, sweet, shy girl you say I was?" She stormed over to the bed and snatched up the robe again. "Because I can't be her. I can't be anything but me. I love you, but I won't change who I am for anyone." She tied the robe around her waist and spread her arms wide. "This is me. You either love me for who I am, or you find someone else to love.

I only had one life, and I'd be damned if I'd live it in a way that would make me unhappy and please somebody else. I had already lived that kind of life, too much of it already.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

As I watch him, a sudden recognition comes over me: Tonight, I can be anyone I want… maybe being happy only means living in the moment, appreciating the exact moment you're in and not thinking about the worries of the future.

All those stories need different endings——which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story.

Haz lo que deseas, y no lo que todos esperan de ti. Deja que sea tu corazón el que guíe tus actos.

Pero si alguna vez tuvo interés en gobernar a los humanos y exigir que lo adorasen como a un dios, hoy, desde luego, prefiere ir a su aire y que lo dejen tranquilo. Es una actitud que soy capaz de comprender porque se parece mucho más a mi propia forma de ser.

I am confused at the idea of dressing for someone else. It makes little sense to me.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

Everyone cared what others thought, even those who were defiantly different. They cared more than anyone.

All these girls had thrown away their corsets, claiming liberation, but apparently, they weren't supposed to eat.

I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.

Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it

nothing is really important but being oneself

The therapist her parents brought her to see liked Tess to do a lot of drawings. . . . He said, "It's interesting that you drew yourself with this little golden crown on your head. What does the crown mean to you?" "That's not a crown," she'd told him. "That's a nimbus of outrage.