Quotes About Self-expression

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be." Mario Vargas Llosa

The solid line throughout was my trying to make space to fly and forever smashing my wings against the bars of the cage. Granted, the cage grew bigger and very big, but I was always beyond the collective in my soul and always cut back by the collective in my body.

You mustn't let men drive you to mangling the English language, no matter how sweet they are.

was the sum of my experiences. I was my own person. I was who I needed to be, not what someone else wanted me to be.

would say that many, if not most people, grow up in a family and cultural environment that gives little, if any, objective, nonjudgmental support to the unique ways in which we feel compelled to express ourselves

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To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

Yo! You're my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I'd have asked for it, Motherfucker!

Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

I myself am the apocalypse of which I speak.

We thus see the artist performing a dual function: first, furthering the integrity of the process of self-expression in the language of art; and secondly, protecting the organic continuity of art in relation to its own laws. For like any organic substance, art must always be in a state of flux, the tempo being slow or fast. But it must move.

Write fearlessly, from the heart; pour your guts out and don't give a damn about what anyone thinks.

Contrary to what you have been told, metrosexuality is not about flip-flops and facials, 'man-bags' or 'manscara'. Or about men becoming 'girlie' or 'gay'. It's about men becoming everything. To themselves. In much the way that women have been for some time. It's the end of the sexual division of bathroom and bedroom labour. It's the end of sexuality as we've known it.

be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment," said Emerson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment

stitched cowboy boots. He grew his hair out. He had his bangs cut straight,

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

I have had a "call" to literature, of a low order—i.e. humorous. It is nothing to be proud of, but it is my strongest suit… seriously scribbling to excite the laughter of God's creatures.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?