Amandla Stenberg Quotes

People who are their own entity and aren't afraid to be who they are can move a nation. I believe the height of my career is going to be during the start of a revolution.

We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.

I'm a bombshell, so I'm going to do me. If I want to go platinum, I'm going platinum.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

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

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

I've always rooted on kids that do what they want to do and are being who they want to be.

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

I have always been known as Mahesh Bhatt's wife, and I would tell people, 'Hello! I'm here!' This has always been a struggle. I would like to be known for who I am. I'm very happy to be known as his wife or Alia's mother. But I am also a person who, in her own right, has gone through quite a lot of odds.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

I want people to see me as my own person.

I love being my mother's daughter, and it's something I always will be, but now I get to be just Billie.

I am not defined to be in any mould and I can be whatever I want to be.

I just kind of want to be me.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself. and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

Every single morning you wake up with the opportunity to be yourself, or be the idea of someone else. For me it is all about... my favourite mantra is: "You do you. I do me. They do they."

Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.