Bryan Stevenson Quotes

There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.

Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.

But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'

I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.

But like Elle Woods, I do not like to be underestimated.

Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.

Fashion is one of those places in which, when you're wearing something that feels like a representation of you, it does create, in a matter of speaking, a space for you to exist. Even if it's just in a two-inch radius of where you are. It's a walking, personalized area in which you can live.

That's my mission: I really want to get in the heads and hearts of kids and persuade them that they can believe things they haven't seen, they can do things that maybe others haven't done before them, that they are more than their worst acts.

Belief triggers the power to do.

I am what I am.

Everyone has something unique to bring to this world. And if you understand that, if you cherish that, if you embrace who you are and then capture that with your clothes... then that is when fashion can make a powerful statement about who you are and what you are about.

The whole point of remaining on cable is to remain true to who I am. That's a bad, bad girl that got a big job.

Believe in yourself, go after your dreams, and don't let anyone put you in a box.

I am used to people underestimating me.

You can accept that perception of yourself that you're getting too old to be interesting or buyable. Or you can kind of do what you do and see what happens.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

I thought I was a sexy symbol!

I feel like what made 'Nasty' so fire was it was finally something that they couldn't take from me.

When you're a little girl, you never think anyone's gonna tell you 'no.'

I define myself.

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.

We do the impossible when we tell ourselves we can.

My very first account was @BlackBarbie, which is what my friends called me growing up. Then I thought, 'You can either call yourself that, or you can find something that will matter to dark-skinned girls.' So I came up with @melaniin.goddess.