Amandla Stenberg Quotes

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

I really wanted to find my own path.

College is a time where a lot of people try to find themselves.

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an identity as possible. It's a form of allowing them to be curious about the world.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

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

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

Kids have to experiment a little or figure out where they belong.

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

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry into the flows of existence can be seen as a beginning, a commencement of a brand new way of seeing oneself in the world. This is the case for everyone.

I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.