Libba Bray Quotes

Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.

Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.

I don't like rules.

My parents aren't really conformists.

My relationship with my dad will always be strained, but that just goes to show, I guess, that I'm doin' a pretty good job of bein' myself, and bein' a rebel.

But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.

People tell me what to do every single day. They think I'm boring. I'm Disney kid. So, there's that.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

My whole life is a contradiction on purpose - to make you think. I think people have forgetten how to have their own opinions. They're always waiting for someone to tell them what to do and what to wear - it's so boring.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

I'm like the black sheep of my family.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.

It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.

I'm not part of any movement; I don't like being fettered.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.