Reem Acra Quotes

I choose to express myself.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I'm just a person.

I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.

Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.

I really tell a lot of stories. I want people to know who I am.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

I'm not the messenger at all. I'm the message.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.

Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself.

I really do try to let the identity or voice inside come out.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Be yourself is all that you can do.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.

Absolutely, I think coming out has allowed me to align who I am with with my creative self.

Be yourself cause everyone else is already taken.

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.