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- Nov 07, 2020
Myself Quotes
Quotes on knowing yourself.
These quotes turn inward, questioning long-held traditions and how one sees oneself - one recalls identifying strongly as a mathematician rather than a technologist, while another admits, with some humor, to relying on charm rather than looks. Related reading includes I Am Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mind thinks in wrestling. As I'm thinking of things and my mind is being creative, it constantly keeps going back to wrestling. That's my inspiration, and to not be able to express that puts me in a spot where I almost don't know what to do with myself.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sing to myself more than anything. I’m always chastising myself, telling myself to be better, or comforting myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom would say I’m a good kid… but I put them through a lot. I was rejecting religion and, not permanently, also kind of rejecting the things that they’d taught me, and just trying to think for myself.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ended up having to leave home to make the music I wanted to make, and to find myself. As cliche as that sounds; I like to think I'm getting closer.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never consider myself a minority. I see people who look like me in Barbados, in Trinidad, in Haiti, in London, and in Brooklyn. So I don't know what the heck anyone means when they call me a 'minority.' There's something about that word to me. It just minimalizes people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020