Lawana Blackwell Quotes

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

Let me do me.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Who ever lives life on their own terms?

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I'm not driven by being understood.

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

Like any young person, I do what I want.

I appreciate individualism.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.