Quotes About Nonconformity

I don't think in a male or female way. I don't differentiate between male and female. I never have. I'm not considered a feminist.

Honestly, I find so many fields - fashion, art, music - totally boring and restricting if you just stick to one of them and try so hard to fit into that thing.

I don't want to be a cookie-cutter-poster-boy-bubble-gum-chewing fighter.

I don't want to look like all the other fighters. I've been proud to not be or act or look like any other fighters.

We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

I've never been interested in dressing one woman. What's interested me was to have a philosophy. It hasn't been important to put a woman in a blue dress. I wanted to dress women who wanted to look at themselves. To stand out. To be women who were not part of the crowd. A woman who fights and advances.

And hip-hop is about style and finesse and being creative and different, and to do that you have to be ballsy enough to not do what everybody else does.

It was strange to go off the path that everyone takes and not finish college, but it's been a great adventure.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I just don't fit into the box.

I don't mind categories, but it's so hard to find one that fits.

I'm a Republican. I'm probably not the cookie-cutter Republican that fits the litmus test of Republican Party politics. But I don't want to be that.

We didn't feel we fitted into the '80s.

I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think.

I don't think I've ever really fitted into the industry and the scene. I feel like I've always been on the cusp.

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.

People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?

Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That's always been my thing.

There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

My particular rule of thumb is to allow disruptors to let their flags fly. If they want to stage a stunt, who cares?

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

I just do my thing regardless of whoever I'm with: Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop, whoever.