Petra Collins Quotes

I know what it's like to turn the page of a magazine and not see anyone like you. It takes a lot, a lot, a lot of talking to yourself to confirm your self-worth.

It's important to see yourself represented.

If you don't believe you don't belong.

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

There's something to be said about seeing your face represented. There's just something really important about that. It just draws you in more.

Every young person needs to have a character that they can identify with and feel included by.

There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.

I hope that every film I make has something to offer in the area of making people feel either vindicated or different in terms of who they are.

I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud.

I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.

When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal girl!

A hero that doesn't look like you makes you want to be something else.

I'm such a firm believer that everyone should see themselves in a character, and everyone should feel represented.

I hoped people would take me as I am. It doesn't matter where I come from.

I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

The truth is, for me, when I was a young black girl who knew I was different, was watching TV, I would always be staring at the TV set looking for myself, and I didn't see me. And when you don't see yourself, you start to think that you don't matter, or you start to think that something is wrong with you.

I'm inspired to post a lot of positive messages on my social media because, growing up, I felt as though I needed somebody that looked like me in the limelight or in entertainment to promote being different and promote accepting your differences.

The last thing I want to think of myself as is anything different.

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.