Quotes About Self-assertion

I'm not a social justice warrior - that was never my goal, to be a political figurehead.

You should just throw your shoulders back, tell those negative voices in your head to shut the hell up and celebrate yourself

Reasons do not grow out of some putative biological substrate but are a forward-looking affirmation of, assertion of, expression of, myself.

I'm not gonna respond to people calling me a race baiter. It doesn't serve me. Also, I'm not a race baiter.

I ain't no wild card!

I think that certainly my choices empower me.

Anybody who knows me has said, 'I had a Denis O'Hare moment.' I suppose in the kindest instance it means standing up for yourself. In the unkindest, it means the crazy guy in the street.

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

You don't want to wake up one morning and realize that everything you've done in your life has been to please someone else. That you've let yourself be railroaded along the way.

Don't let the hand you hold hold you down.

not his mother, nor did he hesitate to say so.

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

Out here a man settles his own problems.

I am no man, I am dynamite.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

People that don't know me, they might think i'm no one, but I let no one to tell me who I am, but me.

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me. Might not be right for you, but it's right for me.

Don't let public opinions pinion you

Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate.

do for yourself, for no one else will

People say i need a Doctor!I say i am a Doctor!!