Anne Fortier Quotes

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I think the most radical thing you can do is be yourself.

It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.

It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel.

I used to brush aside when people used to say 'Poonam, you're different.' It was much later that I realised, I was different.

Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not like Snow. I can be another thing; I’m meant to be another thing.

Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should never settle for someone else's definition of who we can be. Growing to this age, I realize, is kind of like feeling your voice deepen. It's still your voice, but it has more substance, and it sounds like it knows its own origins.

Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.

The older I get, the less I care about what’s cool. I realize I’m old and weird.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

My rocking out didn't make me particularly popular with the boys or girls. It wasn't cute or feminine. I was more of a...weirdo.

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.