Nikki Haley Quotes

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

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

I don't put labels on myself.

If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?

I don't like labels.

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

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'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

I don't want to be put in a category.

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

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

Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

I don't like to be pigeon-holed.

It's like everyone wants to categorize you as this and that until you've made your own mark.

Oh, I don't like labels.

I don't like being put into a category.

I hate being categorized.

Even though my label is that of a beauty queen, I'm not going to limit myself to that, just because that's my title.