"It's up to each of us to..." - Quote by Oprah Winfrey
It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.
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“Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.”
“What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.”
“Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.”
More on Self Definition
“Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.”
“Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!”
“We don't have to let extremists define us.”
More on Identity
“Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.”
“I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.”
“Came to the world at a time when it was in need of a villain. An asshole, that role I think I succeed in fulfilling. Dont think I ever stopped to think I was speaking to children. Everything was happening so fast, it was like I blinked, sold three million.”