LZ Granderson Quotes

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

I really appreciate people who have their own thing going on and stick to it - super authentic. The people who wear something and you're just like "oh, it looks so good!" it's because it's them. They're not trying to be anything.

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style.

The sexiest thing about style is if you kind of just take your personality and put it in what you wear. That's what I think is cool.

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

I don't have any problems with what these guys wear because they got their own style and their own originality. That's the way it's supposed to be, man.

My style is raw; my style is '95. My style is what I live. My style is my story.

Often, we hide our personality and are afraid of bringing it out in our clothes. So, I think when people are fashionable, they are able to express themselves.

But, I think that as long as you have a distinct voice and personality, you can kind of dress how you want.

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!

Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.

Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it.

Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.

I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.

The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Be true to yourself. Establish your own style and stick to it.

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool.

The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be. And if I were a writer or an announcer starting out, I don't think I'd imitate anybody. I'd try to be whatever I am.