Princess Nokia Quotes

It's hard to pigeonhole me.

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.

'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.

I like being a chameleon and doing things that are just so different that people will be like, 'Oh, that's him?'

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

No one is any one thing.

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

Don't classify me, read me.

I never want to be just one thing - I want to be multidimensional.

People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

I don't think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.

Well, I've always been eclectic.

I don't want to be easily defined.

I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'

I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.

You can be layered and more than one thing - you can exist outside of the box.

People don't want to be diverse, or they're scared to be diverse. People just dress a certain way to fit in but sometimes being outside of the box is the cool thing to do.

I always felt different because I didn't pick one specific clique or group to be a part of, and I didn't choose one thing to be. I cheered, sang in chorus, was in student government, played in rock bands, went to dirt races in western PA... My interests have always been diverse.

I would say I have more in common with drag queens than I do with most people.

There are infinite combinations that people can experience, because no two people are alike, and no two people's identities should be expected to be alike. I mean, we see it in fashion: one size does not fit all. And I think it's, you know, completely ridiculous that we've expected people's identities to be one size fits all.

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.