Lee Pearson Quotes

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.

We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

I'd taken the bull by the horns by liberating myself and creating a career. It took guts - it was scary and chancy - but they discounted me as empty-headed: some little piece of fluff without any brain that happened to come along.

You have to figure out how you can step forward and affect your own life. I think that sense of empowerment is actually really positive, specifically for the young generation because they've been bystanders in their own lives for a while.

I have learned that you can do anything you want to. They used to ask me if I thought the first lady ought to be paid. If you get paid, then I have to do what first lady is supposed to do. But you can do anything you want to, and it's such a great soap box.

Adapt to yourself, bro. What I wanna say is don't let nobody tell you that you should stay in your lane, bro.

Be whatever you want to be.

I wanted 'Comme si' to immediately indicate that something changed in my life, mainly because I became the hero of my own desires instead of just dreaming about them.

I always felt like - I mean, I was told, really - I couldn't go too far with the productions because it didn't appeal to black radio. It wasn't until I decided I was going to do what I wanted to do or I was going to quit that I empowered myself. I took my power back.

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.

I leave before being left. I decide.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I have an expression I use as I've gone around the world through my career: 'You never tell another man or woman what's in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.'

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.