Adwoa Aboah Quotes

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.

I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.

It's not like I try to be different, but every single person is unique, and every single person has special things to offer, and it's about embracing it and not being afraid of the fact that maybe you're different or quirky, but it's okay to be different, and it can be a wonderful thing.

I'm starting to realise that there are certain themes that I return to, those being that there is no such thing as normal, and people finding their voice and living authentically. And also that you can be influenced and helped through an extended family.

I was definitely considered different growing up. I learned that being me was all right because my family celebrated those differences.

There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.

Being different makes you beautiful.

I've used some of my differences as a way to stand out and to hopefully count and matter - and hopefully create an opportunity for others.

Just because I don't look like everybody else doesn't mean that I can't be just as beautiful.

I want to show the world that if you want to be a bearded lady you are allowed to do it without being discriminated against.

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.

I want to show people they don't have to be scared of being different.

People like to put you a box. I've always been the wrong shape. Maybe you are, too. I think all the people who are wrong shapes for boxes should go out and march into the streets singing, 'We are the shapes! We don't fit the box.'

I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences... be yourself. Fight for your happiness always.

You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.