Quotes About Nonconformity

That, child, is one of the glorious advantages to being a madman. I don't have to make sense. It's very liberating. You should try it sometime.

She's not royalty for Christ's sake. She's a Grape.

Normal is the enemy of interesting.

The idea that one man's unique personal vision is greater than the importance of fashions in art or mainstream type philosophy.

Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.

I have never yielded to reality.

Let people call me crazy; fuck them.

I wouldn't so much as stick my head in a pool hall. Oh, look, this is as far as I go explaining what I am and am not like. I will not explain myself one more time. I will not make an inventory of my attributes for people or mention my goddamn sense of duty. I will not take one more round of his ridiculous, nonsensical crap!" Whereupon

No aceptaría la tiranía del nosotros, la cháchara del nosotros y todo lo que el nosotros quiere volcarte encima.

If artists, writers and musicians were not just a little delusional, they would all have office jobs.

I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.

I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?

avant-garde , adj. This was after Alisa' show, the reverse-blackface rendition of Gone With the Wind , including songs from the Empire Records soundtrack and an interval of nineteenth-century German poetry, recited with a lisp. What does avant-garde mean, anyway? I asked. I believe it translates as favor to your friends , you replied.

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

Whatever everyone else was not, I was willing to be.

I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither.

There were days I felt like a girl and days I felt like a boy, and those days wouldn't always correspond with the body I was in. I still believed everyone when they said I had to be one or the other. Nobody was telling me a different story, and I was too young to think for myself. I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither.

Kids don't give a shit about clipboards.

I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic.

Try to capture what it's like to have never squeezed yourself into the shape of someone else's expectations.

i don't want my body to be a temple. i don't want it to be worshiped or congregated.

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

If you think I'm putting my bra back on for this bullshit, you are so sorely mistaken.

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