Kris Carr Quotes

Lift your head up high, and scream to the world. I know I am someone, and let the truth unfurl.

Feel empowered. And if you start to do it, if you start to feel your voice heard, you will never go back.

I feel like I have to have a voice.

I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.

You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true.

I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am

I've had so many moments where seeing other women be fully and truly and authentically themselves, and express that, has given me permission. Once you see it happening, you're like, "Oh, I have permission to do that, too."

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!

I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that's what I've always done.

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

I'm blessed to have a voice, and I'm going to use it.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Everyone has something unique to bring to this world. And if you understand that, if you cherish that, if you embrace who you are and then capture that with your clothes... then that is when fashion can make a powerful statement about who you are and what you are about.

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.

I was encouraged to use my voice and explore my passions outside of the sport. And when I did that, I was finally able to realize my true self-worth. I was more than that of a gymnast.

To costume yourself in the way that you fantasize, to make that a reality, and then to go right into the universe looking like an exceptional being takes a lot of courage.

I wish when I was 15 that I realized my voice was important and that even my thoughts and my opinions had value. Had I known, I probably would've spoken up more. I probably would've found my activism sooner and become a writer sooner.

It's become easier to speak up for myself.

Be not scared to use your voice.

The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

Power comes from who you are, not what you have, and the transformation starts with how you allow others to treat you.

I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.