India Arie Quotes

I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that.

My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn't.

I don't know if I feel like an outsider or an insider; I just feel like I always did. I don't have one of those stories where I felt like no one understood me.

I remember being a kid and always feeling a little different than all my friends.

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

I'm just like you, only I'm different because I'm me.

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

When my friends started to care about getting girlfriends, I really didn't. I started to think, literally, 'What's wrong with me?' and, 'Why can't I be normal like everybody else?'

At a young age, I was very aware I was different and not perceived in a good way. For a lot of my adolescence, I struggled with that, trying to identify where I belong and who my real friends are.

It doesn't feel great to be compared to Genelia or anyone. I don't want to be compared, and I would like to think I am different.

I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular?

I have never wanted to hide my freckles. I just didn't like the way I looked without them; it didn't look like me.

We all feel at some point of our lives that we're different, that we don't fit in.

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.