Quotes About Self-expression

I'll probably always opt for makeup because I just like the way it feels. You can play with it and create different looks, and I think that's fun. But I also want the option to not need it.

I wasn't sure music was an option for me.

If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.

Make Up For Ever has foundation options that work for me - and everyone.

I didn't know there were options like gender neutral or gender fluid. I later realized you could be a girl and dress like a guy.

I like being orange and having eyelashes that go up to my forehead.

My first memories of make-up aren't great! I remember having a bright orange face and a white neck, I didn't know how to use make-up.

I have an issue with others ordering for me, and I spend far too long haranguing people that my choices are the best. I apologize for the amount of conversations I have ruined with this attitude.

Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!

If I couldn't get to where I wanted to by being my organic self - which is a smart, funny, unapologetically black woman - then I felt like it's not worth doing it if I can't do it the most organic way possible. Which is why I left the music business.

It's about me doing me, about me being organic. I can't wear things and put on a front and say I like something when I don't. I won't wear something I wouldn't normally wear just for people to like it or for people to look at me like this or that in fashion.

As far as how I approach the humor, I think the best comedy is going to happen when I'm myself and act organically to a news item or situation.

I don't sing beautifully or grandly or in a very 'moving' way. I am me - which is not very beautiful at times, and not very organised or regular.

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.

At the end of the day, I say, 'You do you.' You shouldn't be focusing on convincing people what your sexual orientation is.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

I am the original 'Material Girl.'

I feel like when I went back to my original hair color, a little bit of an edgier side came out.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'