Angie Martinez Quotes

Say what you think / Love who you love.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

It's okay to be a freak.

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

That's the biggest thing: be kind and be original.

My mom just always taught me to let people live, let people be who they are without restrictions, without limitations.

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

Authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy.

One thing I've learned best from my mom is to be yourself and not everyone will get you and that's okay. I try to bring that into everything that I do and just understand that I will not be everyone's cup of tea and that's fine.

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.

We should all try to embrace our own quirkiness.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I'm just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, 'It is what it is.' I walk into a situation knowing that people are either going to love me or they're not, and that's OK. I'm just going to be me. You can't be everything to everyone.

What's important to me is people just being people.

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.

My whole thing is feel free to hate me - I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.

Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

I've got a soft spot for true individuals.

I am a big believer in letting your own personal freak flag fly.

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

I have tried to be more relatable, but I won't be relatable to everybody.

I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.