#individuality

"To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone."

"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."

"I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way."

"Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed."

"You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are."

"It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness."

"All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not."

"She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life."

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)."

"Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals."

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."

"I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."

"To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life…"

"I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might."