Katy Mixon Quotes

I'm proud to be black and white and look the way I look. I'm proud to not speak down on women or glorify things that are unimportant.

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.

I'm lucky to be in a space where I've been accepted for who I am and celebrated for who I am.

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.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again because you can't say it enough: Your skin is beautiful - dark, light, in the middle, whatever. Brown is beautiful. Your hair is beautiful. If you wear a weave, it's beautiful. If you choose to be natural, that's beautiful. Also, you are enough.

I deeply believed that I wasn't worthy - that I couldn't be in the stories even I was creating. I don't want anyone else to feel like that.

I'm not that good looking.

I don't always understand my worth.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

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.

Why am I a star? It can't be because of looks.

If you don't believe you don't belong.

I think I think I am Superwoman sometimes but I am not.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.

I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I was always a strong child, was always confident, but looks never mattered to me.

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

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.

For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.

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.

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?