Mike Cernovich Quotes

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I am my world.

So, Beav, tell me about yourself." "I'm Blue." "Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either." "My name is Blue. Blue Bailey.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

I've never viewed myself as 'just' a musician or singer.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I'm not enough of one of those public personalities who feels as though he's been one-dimensionalized. I don't feel that strongly enough.

Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

Who am I, really? I prefer to leave that up to the observer, because I will never finish answering that.

My state of being is just unique.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

Identity is made up of lots of different things now. Different colors and patterns stand out at different times. Different instruments in the symphony of being are more distinct than others at different times.

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.

My life is not a sound bite.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.