Quotes About Self-expression

When I leave my car my iPhone escorts me, letting everyone else in the post office know that I'm not really with them, I'm with my own people, who are so hilarious that I can't help smiling to myself as I text them back.

Past a certain age, they give up on the name games, which is regrettable for someone like me who loves anything that involves going around a circle and saying something about yourself. I wish there was a class where we could just keep going around the circle, around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

Just be yourself, because on the inside, that's what counts and that is what makes every person beautiful inside and out.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

Whateva!! Whateva!! I do what I WAUNT!!!

Be yourself and I promise people will enjoy it, and if they don't, forget them.

A person can change the way he talks, but not the way he sneezes. A person can turn single-fold eyelids into double folds, but the greatest plastic surgeon alive cannot change the look in a man's eyes.

usually I see myself 1st, be myself, then I wont need to compare myself with someone or do wat he does..that's my life visionary..

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

Mary could be as sullen or rebellious as anyone on occasion, but she never achieved the glorious abandon with which Angela simply went her own way, uncaring.

We loved our opposites so that we could free ourselves from our selves.

Labels? Okay, fine. I'm bisensual. Heteroflexible. And life-curious. That about covers it.

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.

I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be ... I'm free to be what I want.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Musin Almat Zhumabekovich