Quotes About Self-expression

Bowie drew our attention to the fact that a person could play the part of a rock star before actually becoming one.

It can often seem that those in power don't want us to enjoy making things for ourselves - they'd prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation.

You can't become normal by pretending you are.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

Pick acabó estando en boca de todos, convertido en el símbolo de lo que sueñan quienes aspiran a que algún día les reconozcan el talento. ¿Quién podría creer a los que dicen que escriben para sí mismos?

Yet even in the best of cases, the need to be on call, to spend at least a certain amount of energy looking over one's shoulder, maintaining a false front, never looking too obviously engrossed, the inability to fully collaborate with others —all this lends itself much more to a culture of computer games, YouTube rants, memes, and Twitter controversies than to, say, the rock 'n' roll bands, drug poetry, and experimental theater created under the midcentury welfare state.

Vorrei che tu potessi ricordare come ci si sente quando si è donna, e come ci si sente quando non si è né uomo né donna. Solo "essere", prima di tutto, prima delle definizioni, dei pronomi personali, delle parole e dei generi. Forse, in questo modo, potresti anche arrivare, quasi per caso, alla possibilità primordiale di essere me

And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be—everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.

again, her singing was her only absolute, the only thing that was completely her. a thousand classes hadn't given her this concrete insight: her voice was her place in the world, the home she leaves in the morning and returns to at night, in which she can be herself in her entirety and hope to be loved for all that she is and in spite of all she is.

Can't help the way I'm made. Don't want to help it, either. It's gotten me this far. As

Keep up self-definition and you'll never be apparent.

You have inner emotional turmoil because you are suppressing who you really are and submitting, through fear, to another's design; and/or you are seething with anger and resentment with people who won't live their lives as you believe they should.

Real freedom - where I could think the unthinkable and say the unstable and I give a damn what people made of it. How many allow themselves that priceless gift? And get it is there for the taking whenever they choose.

The fear of being vulnerable prompts me into bringing myself forward.

I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba.

God makes originals not carbon copies. It's okay to be inspired by someone, but be bold enough to be yourself.

Thank God for Redbull and fake eyelashes.

I guess a lot of people think that a girl who shows her bosom and wears tight dresses can't be close to God. God has always been close to me. Only He knew what was in my heart.

Thank God I am 20 feet tall, so my crying is never mistaken as weak. It can be mistaken as weird, but not weak.

God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

Oh, come on, ladies. God wouldn't have given you maracas if he didn't want you to shake 'em.

God made me the way that I am and it's my business to be true to that.

God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

If you try to be someone else, you rob God of who He is trying to make YOU to be.