Long time Quote by Ralph Ellison

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born…

— Ralph Ellison

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their…

— Ralph Ellison

“Nobody would know me from my own description of myself;”

— Claire Messud

“Everybody is somebody, but nobody wants to be themselves”

— Gnarls Barkley

“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out in the world…

— Mary Olier

“Be what nobody else can ever be . . . yourself”

— Samantha Christy

“Being myself is the one thing that people would want to see out of me, they don't want to see me being the fake…

— Anonymous

“You are not truly yourself until you no longer define yourself in others’ terms.”

— Shawn Davis

“If I am not for myself who is for me?”

— Anonymous

“If I'm not myself, then who will be? If I'm only for myself, then what does that make me? If not now, then when?”

— Hillel

“People want you to be yourself, that is, until you are yourself.”

— VD

“I hated when people thought they knew everything there was to know about a person. There was no room to be anything different in…

— Shana Norris