India Arie Quotes

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

One of my problems is to find the self.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Figure out who you are.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate. I've always been very aware of that, more conscious of who I am, how I fit in the thing as opposed to trying to emulate someone else. Though, sometimes I try to emulate De Niro all the time, who is someone I could never be.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

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