Baron Vaughn Quotes

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.

Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to offer to the contemporary world, and then learning how to make that offering valid.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

I choose to express myself.

Ultimately, the reason privacy is so vital is it's the realm in which we can do all the things that are valuable as human beings. It's the place that uniquely enables us to explore limits, to test boundaries, to engage in novel and creative ways of thinking and being.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that's what I've always done.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

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

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Training readers to expect a voice or subject matter from me would interfere with the reinvention I crave. At the same time, I feel almost too able to disappear at times.

I invented myself.