Priyanka Chopra Quotes

I got my high school diploma and a degree from the University of California. But most important, I got myself together and found out who I was and how I could proceed without destroying myself.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I never thought black people would say I wasn't black enough. It didn't turn me into a bully - it just put me on the defensive. I had to watch my back. It made me stronger because I learned how to deal with ignorance.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.

I can't change the past. It made me what I am.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

Experiences don't make us damaged goods; it's what we do with those experiences that matters.

I have had strangers come up to me and attempt to mimic the Chinese language in a derogatory manner. I have been told countless times that I speak 'good' English. I have been asked why someone like me would be interested in watching NFL football. On any given day, if I walk around with a camera, I will be mistaken for a tourist from Asia.

I've always thought of myself as a strong person. However, it's taken me a while to fully find my voice.

At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.

Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves.

I don't like that putdown: that when you're trying to achieve, you're trying to be white. That makes me mad.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

Makes you grow up quick. Hard work makes you strong. I work hard every day; that's where I get my strength. That and knowing who I am.

There was sort of a negative association with the military. Maybe growing up in the South or being in a family with members of the military, I didn't have that negative connotation, but I did have this 'separate' connotation. I was ashamed to realize I had it and did not realize I had it until I was [in Iraq]. I was so impressed by the people I met over there and there was just a sense of connection and gratitude towards those people.

For he who loses all often easily loses himself.

Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day.

Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.

I get offended when people say, 'So, being a white rapper...and growing up white...after being born white...' It's all I ever hear!

Running has taken me in, and continues to comfort, heal and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a 'good runner' because I am me. I am a good 'me' because I am a runner.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.