Chinua Achebe Quotes

Whether it's a film, a television show, an event or a pair of shoes, everything Uninterrupted does comes back to the fundamental belief that every human is multidimensional and should be empowered to share their own story.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

Write your own stories.

Right away, I knew I didn't want to have that look of other guys with long hair and bell-bottom pants, because everybody else had that look. I kind of adopted my boarding-school look, which made me stand out. Then the next thing you know, the first song on my first record is a song called "School Days." It's about going to the boarding school I went to. So then I just started to write about myself. The very first song I ever wrote was about a guy I met in a boatyard that we were working in. So I've always had this thing about sticking to more or less what I knew.

I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

I'm writing what I want to write. But it's almost an act of rebellion on my part. Because as a person, I've always wanted to be very likeable, and I think that's a horrible thing, particularly for women. You're always like, "Oh, I hope I didn't hurt anyone's feelings. I hope they like me!" And that's just so stupid.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

You gotta say what you say, Don't let anybody get in your way...

I made a statement all my own.

I love Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Katy Perry. They are all about being themselves and I love that.

I'm different, and I'm not afraid to be different.

I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.