Pearl Bailey Quotes

I don't use labels a lot.

Personally, I don't like defining myself. I don't want to be put in one category in any kind of way.

Oh, I don't like labels.

I don't like labels.

As much as I live I shall not imitate them or hate myself for being different to them

To conform is to lose your soul

You can survive without a label... matter a fact, you're better off without one!

I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled the bisexual defector. Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

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

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

You don't have to be worried about labeling me.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

I've always wrestled against being typified in one way or another.

People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.