Libba Bray Quotes

Freedom is a unique concept that everyone interprets differently.

I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

I don't think, in a country, you can have people thinking and feeling exactly the same.

We allow each other so little enjoyment or even tolerance for our individualities, our uniquenesses, and yet to me, that's what it's all about.

We should give people the freedom to express who they are.

There's so many different kinds of beauty.

It's OK to be different, and it's OK to not follow.

I just want to give my fans a place to go where they can be free and nobody will judge them, because life is more interesting when you're looking at it from the outside. I don't think you need to be on the outside looking in; I think you should enjoy the outside.

There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.

Everybody marches to a different drummer.

All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.

We can believe as we want, but we should not force our beliefs on others.

There isn't a right way to become educated; there are as many ways as there are fingerprints.

Let every foot have its own shoe.

Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites, love affairs; there are the lives of people, Gods, entire galaxies. The simplest human action varies from one person and occasion to the next-how else would we recognize our friends only from their gait, posture, voice, and divine their changing moods? Only a tiny fraction of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback.

Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.