Audre Lorde Quotes

Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.

You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

I want to reclaim who I am.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

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

I know who I am. I'm proud of my journey.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

I just want to be who I am. I think all women go through the belief that they need to be superwoman - that to be successful in any way, and I don't necessarily mean in business or anything, but just to be a successful person, you have to be superwoman.

All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with the two issues of identity and empowerment. Who am I? How can I have the power to live? Those are the questions everyone has to deal with. If we don't come to terms with these, we lapse into some form of human decadence and failure.

Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.

I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.

Our goal as women should be to discover who we are and not who we think we should be or who the world wants us to be. It's not our responsibility to be arm candy!

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

Learn what you are and be such.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.