Quotes About Self-expression

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.

All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you.

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.

What really drives me is sharing the power of makeup with every woman.

You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else.

Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.

I think of the internet like my disguise. It's the only place where people don't treat me like I'm either a monster or a charity case to be pitied.

had my hair permed down the center but cut shorter on the sides, in a recent fit of enthusiasm for the artist who was still then known as Prince and also for the look of a singer named Adam Ant. Despite my stylist's valiant efforts, my hair looked nothing like theirs. But I did look like someone trying very hard not to look like everyone else; I was elaborately disguised as someone who didn't care what other people thought of me.

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?

Too much of me was lost in the vision of what somebody else wanted me to be.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

What have our ancestors been striving for, under the name of civil liberty, for the last five hundred years? They have been striving to bring it about that each man and woman might live out his or her life according to his or her own notions of happiness and up to the measure of his or her own virtue and wisdom. How

the right to be naked and not to be ruled by Mrs. Grundy deserves financial support from anyone who believes in freedom.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

You can not lie in your paintings, because you cannot hide from yourself.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.