James Baldwin Quotes

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

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

My personality doesn't interest me.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

When you don't know your values or who you are or you start to believe things other people are telling you, you get lost. I was just lost because I didn't know what I meant to music or what music meant to me. Now I just belong solo and I belong by myself.

Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Figure out who you are.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

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!'

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.

I don't find myself intriguing.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

All I know is myself and I don't plan on changing that.

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

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.