Lena Waithe Quotes

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.

I am definitely an individual.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

You can’t have people make you what you are not. You can have advisers and political consultants, but at the end of the day, you are who you are.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of their own imagination.

To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.

I thought of myself as an individual ever since I was little.

I am my own person with my own experiences, personality, and definition of success.

With all due respect to Coach O'Brien and Coach Godsey, I've told them I'm going to be me.

I think I'm pretty confident, and I know I'm different than everyone else, so I'm going to do what's me.

I would classify myself as an individual. That's what I try to stay true with - being myself, 100 percent.

Any comparison to a WWE legend or someone I've looked up to is really cool, but make no mistake about it, my ego is too big to want to be a really good replica of someone else!

I'm just gonna be myself and that's been good enough for me throughout my life.

If you live your life by what others say, it stops being your life.

In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships.

Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

I do what I feel I know how to do and don't do things that I don't. I'm a product of my sensibility.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

I am trying to be a good person. I am trying to be myself, and if nobody likes me for me, that is their problem.