Quotes About Self

I don't care about my image.

I grew up under the politics of my size and my skin. I grew up under the politics of the sound of my voice and a lack of agency, or a feeling of a lack of agency, and not always being able to find myself in images that were in the media.

I became to myself an imaginary figure of great excellence, daring and glamor.

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

I enjoy it immensely, but I'm not comfortable on stage as a person.

You can't live for other people, you know? You gotta live for yourself and better the people around you and make an impact.

When I'm doing a session for another artist, it's a very scheduled thing, and it's kind of imperative that I write a song in that time. But if I'm trying to write a song for myself and I don't have an idea that day, I just can't force it.

I am imperfect. I am funny. I am real.

I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

I'm black, and it's a very important part of what I am. I'm not embarrassed about it.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

For me, the most important things are me, myself, and my family.

One of the most important things for an actor is to know who you are.

I like to impress myself when I dress.

People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there gives people the impression that they have haters. It's all for attention so it looks like they are important.

I've never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I'm always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about being confident about a particular defined identity.

Improvement begins with I.

As a player, I just focus on the games and concentrate on improving myself.

I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

In the end, it's your job to own the role, and in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even.

I think, in the end, we are all our own individual person.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.