Annie Lennox Quotes

Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are - you are more than what it says on your passport.

There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.

That you can be whatever you want to be, whoever you want to be, regardless of your gender.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

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

If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.

I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am.

I don't know what I am if I'm not a woman.

Always stay true to who you are - barriers can and will be broken!

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

What we're doing is not just about becoming a model. It's bigger than that. It's shining a spotlight on folks who know who they are. They know what they want to do. And in terms of modeling, they're already working. They know what they're doing! They're fantastic!

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am a man who does music. It's like clothes don't make the man, the man makes the clothes. It's, it's like that song don't make me, I make the song.

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.

Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers, but really I knew it before then. I learned it as a child on my first day of school, on the warm rainy streets of Bangkok, and in college. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

I am the me I choose to be.

This is just one little part of who I am, and I'm not gonna let my sexuality define or confine me. It's part of me, it's not all of me.

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

The important thing is not to be defined by what others think of you.