Quotes About Self-expression

I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.

I do like Manny, crank up the inside volume, listen to my dreams as I walk through the school halls, I choose what words to let in.

Don't live a life you copy from others, it's definitely going to be complicated to you.

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

ERNEST FRIEDLANDER: Be quiet! Be quiet! LEO MERCURÉ: Why should we be quiet? You're making enough row to blast the roof off! Why should you have the monopoly of noise? Why should your pompous moral pretensions be allowed to hurdle across the city without any competition? We've all got lungs. Let's use them! Let's shriek like mad! Let's enjoy ourselves!

There is no separating yourself from the things you make, he thought. If you are a cesspool, what else can your work be except shit?

The person who is defined by integrity understands that everything they do is a statement about who they are as a person.

Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.

In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.

There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

When were in the prence of another person, there Is always a masks, even if that mask is our face. There is no escaping it. And so the vast majority of what we say to each other, whether it is to our spouses, our family, our confessor, or perfect strangers, amounts to chitchat all the same. Or at best, a crack audition for that juiciest of all parts were literally dying to play: ourselves.. But alone. Fuckin A- ALONE were genius.

It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? This is the question that counts.

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

I was a happy young woman and I just happened to write poetry. I wasn't trying to get anywhere, I was where I wanted to be..." Rest In love Queen!!

i am really colored & really sad sometimes & you hurt me more than i ever danced outta/ i am ready to die like a lily in the desert/ & i cdnt let you in on it cuz i didnt know/ here is what i have/ poems/ big thighs/ lil tits/ & so much love/ will you take it from me this one time/ please this is for you

i got 15 trumpets where other women got hips & a upright bass for both sides of my heart

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

Bir silgi gibi tükendim ben Ba?kalar?n?n yapt?klar?n? silmeye çal??t?m Mürekkeple yazm??lar oysa.. Ben kur?unkalem silgisiydim Azald???mla kald?m..

Kendimize isimler vermeyelim, yapt???m?z i?lerle varolal?m, bunun d???nda kalan bütün sahte unvanlar?, kurumlar?, insan?n kendini üstün bir ?ey saymas?na yolaçan düzenleri yok sayal?m...

Beni babama çok benzetirlerdi. Ona benzedi?im için adam olamad?m, serseri oldum art?k eve çamurlu ayakkab?lar?mla girece?im,

She means the devil with people who say you're anything but what you are.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me.