John Henrik Clarke Quotes

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I'm not driven by being understood.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

I want to be intentional about my freedom - in choosing it, honoring it, and protecting it. One of the best feelings I know is feeling truly free.

I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.

Be yourself. Unapologetically.

I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.

I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze time.

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.