Monique Coleman Quotes

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.

Follow no path. Make your own.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

My thing is: stay creative. And just because somebody starts to pay you, that don't mean all your creativity goes to that, and you don't save none for yourself to be able to do other, bigger and better things and still follow your dreams even if you start off inside of a box.

I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.

I just like doing things from my own head.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.