Chance The Rapper Quotes

Thank you to Australia for letting me know that I'm OK just the way that I am.

I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud.

I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.

You've got to love what's yours.

I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

I hope that I can be an inspiration to kids that are young and may feel different or may feel like they don't belong.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do.

I know I'm representing a group - black, Latin, whatever you want to put me with - and I want to show that they are beautiful the way they are. I think that's really important for our youth to see.

The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely.

I'd say for those people who don't feel like they fit in, I'd want them to ask themselves why they want to, who they are trying to please, and whether or not those people are worth it. You know what they say: 'If they don't want you, then they don't deserve to have you.'

Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

I love who I am.

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

There is no reason to be ashamed of who you are.

My biggest lesson in becoming a woman is to really love what I've been given.

I know what it's like to turn the page of a magazine and not see anyone like you. It takes a lot, a lot, a lot of talking to yourself to confirm your self-worth.

I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.

Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.

I grew up on the ragged edge of self-acceptance, where I was holding on to it, but it was easy to fall off. But as I found my way inside myself, I've been able to accept my own hair, my own shape.

I love seeing a young woman embrace who she is.