Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

I have an interest in the outsider.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.

I've always been interested in the outsider.

I've always been an outsider to some extent.

I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders.

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

It kind of feels cool to be the outsider.

A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.

I guess I've always been something of an outsider.

I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.

We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

I've always just been more comfortable as an outsider.

I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.

I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.

My identity, I felt, was so distinct. I felt very much like an outsider. My family didn't have the same rituals that everyone else seemed to have.

When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.

I'm the one that's used to being not normal.