Vince Staples Quotes

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.

Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.

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.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

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

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

I replaced Walsh, I replaced Blackmore, now I just gotta be me.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.