Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

My style is all to myself.

My game is me. I didn't try to pattern my game after nobody.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

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

Be yourself. It's the most important part of anything that you do. It's not fashion. It can be whatever you want to do.

Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.

Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

I was always telling girls who said that they wanted to be the 'next' Kate Moss or the 'next' Gisele that it wasn't possible, because the 'next' girl wasn't going to look like anybody else; she would be somebody unique. If you look at all the great models... they all have an individual look.

Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

I take a little bit from everybody and add that to my life to make me, me. I wanna be nobody else but Future. When you look at me, I want you to say, 'Future.' The way I talk, the way I dress, there's nobody in the world but me.

I make a lot of my own clothes. I don't like wearing the same thing everybody else wears.

There have been comparisons but I don't want to be compared with anyone. I want to be myself, with my own style and identity.

The biggest thing is, when I was coming up, the thing that made you wonderful was your uniqueness. People celebrated that.

I don't want to be a copy of anyone else.

I want to express myself but, at the same time, still be special and different.

Everyone has their own style. It's unique; no one person's style is wrong.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.