Halima Aden Quotes

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I'm gay: well, the fact that I'm flamboyantly gay.

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.

There's kind of a gift in being gay because, if you come out, you're forced to express yourself.

Just because I don't look like everybody else doesn't mean that I can't be just as beautiful.

I am so sick and tired of being told what I'm supposed to look like!

Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are.

Someone asked me recently, "Do you get sick of people asking you about your hair?" And the reason I don't is because I actually feel like you could chronicle my journey of self-acceptance through my journey with my hair. It's a badge of something bigger.

I'm not ashamed of who I am.

I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain.

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I'm very proud of my roots, and I would never try not to be who I am.

I've always been proud of my body, my Jewish nose and all of that. Hollywood's Hollywood, but that's not going to change.

I always hated the part when I had to look pretty. I love that I don't have to look pretty.

I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search 'coming out,' and they'll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.