Mahershala Ali Quotes

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

I just don't conform very well.

I don't care much about conforming.

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

I really want to be different.

I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

My parents aren't really conformists.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

No, I'm not politically correct. I never wanted to be, and I never will be.

I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.

I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

I used to be frustrated about being called bohemian, but I don't really care now. If that's what you are, you should celebrate it.

I am not a normal man.

I make no concessions to conformism.

I've never been traditional, and I hate conforming to anything.

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?

It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.

I'm not scary. It's scary for people to see someone being nonconformist.

My friends and me, we're the type that don't care. We're not into fashion. That's, like, millennial spirit.

Cool is just something we've never been.