To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.

I just always want to be different – THE EXCEPTION – and this weekend knocked me right back to reality.And the reality is – I AM TRULY BLESSED ..

It seems to me that the greatest triumph of any human rights movement, be it fighting for racial, religious, sexual or gender equality – is to achieve that moment where eyes are opened so wide...

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling…and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and...

Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity.

It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know...

De fiecare dată c nd pronunţ uman, am în minte noţiunea de subuman.

I am an artist. Any artist knows that their creations, their pieces must express an array of human emotion and experience. From the juvenile and innocent, to the erotic and the dangerous, and everything in...

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves...

If we are cultivating fruit in an orchard, we wish that particular fruit to grow in its own way; we give it the soil it needs, the amount of moisture, the amount of care, but...

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…

Take a good long look at The Lord’s Prayer. It’s all ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’. There is no ‘me’, ‘I’ or ‘mine’ anywhere.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.

It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.

He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was: charged, surcharged. Not a founder of new philosophies — not of that build. But...

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

Disconnect from society’s pressure to conform. Do things your own way.

Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.

Oh, sometimes it’s just easier to please people,” Maria said finally.

They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path....

My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day. I told them this story:...

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level,...

In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don’t really care.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I don’t beg for those things which can be earned.

You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft’s immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.

There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.

Follow the sincerity of your heart, it will always lead you on the right path” Cinderella in Focus: Cindy’s Secret

His twin brother died, and rather than assume he felt sad, I imagined he felt like an individual. Finally, he was one of one, not one of two.

To exist is to stand out, away from the background,” The Preacher said. “You aren’t thinking or really existing unless you’re willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.

People need to learn how to take the role of leader out of God’s hands.

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Individuality seems to be Nature’s whole aim — and she cares nothing for individuals.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment. And what can...

You will never be the best copycat in the world but you can be the best you

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

You are free. Your mind belongs to you. Your thoughts are yours. Honor the sacred territory of your freedom and individuality.

A world of fully developed individuals is immune to the cult of collectivism.

I have never tried to be a good person, or to appear to be a good person. What I do and what I have done is merely a side effect of my desire to become...

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.