Quotes about Individuality

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

But the courage to go against a sweep of feeling, to be an awkward minority, to stand up and be counted, even when it makes one unpopular, is not as prevalent as it should be. We have a long way to go to achieve responsible citizenship and common self-respecting humanity.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

The hand or foot, when separated from the body, retains indeed its name, but totally changes its nature, because it is completely divested of its uses and of its powers.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Let's let our men be happy, be sad, be trans, be questioning, be bisexual, be non-conforming, be feminine, be masculine!

In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.