Amandla Stenberg Quotes
I'd say my relation to being a woman is, I mean being a woman is whatever you want because the concept of gender is not really real, you know? And so for me it's about being comfortable in myself. It's about allowing myself to express who I am in any way that I want to, whether that be through my clothing, the way I present myself to the world, whether that be through like my gender identity and my pronouns. It's just really about allowing yourself to really be expressive and creative.
Quotes to Explore
-
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
-
If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
-
Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
-
I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
-
No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
-
Incommensurables cannot be compared.
-
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
-
Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
-
Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
-
Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
-
I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
-
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
-
People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
-
I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
-
The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
-
It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
-
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
-
I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
-
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
-
These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.
-
I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball game, I'll probably talk to everyone there. That's different. But on the outside world, if I don't know you and you don't know me, I probably cannot sit there and have a conversation.
-
I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.
-
I'd say my relation to being a woman is, I mean being a woman is whatever you want because the concept of gender is not really real, you know? And so for me it's about being comfortable in myself. It's about allowing myself to express who I am in any way that I want to, whether that be through my clothing, the way I present myself to the world, whether that be through like my gender identity and my pronouns. It's just really about allowing yourself to really be expressive and creative.
