Marcus Garvey Quotes

I stopped caring what people thought.

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

There's this tradition of women's magazines - which have been my bread and butter as a freelancer - where the paradigm is that the writing is about relationships, body image, lessons, and it's always redemptive.

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.

It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.

I've stopped caring what people think.

It takes courage to love yourself when you've been told your whole life that you're ugly, or dirty, or a terrorist.

I truly love my hair but my skin colour was something I couldn't get my head around.

I was in Italy on vacation, and I saw my reflection in a mirror. I saw how unique my skin was and why people stop me on the street to ask about it. I started falling in love with it.

Isn't it incredible how, you know, people have to fight to look like themselves. It's so crazy to me.

The last step will be letting my hair go natural. That's when you'll know I'm free.

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

Freaks, they are very prejudiced. You have to have your hair long and talk in a certain way in order to be with them. In order to be the other way you have to have your hair short and wear ties.

I think growing up, you just deal with 'I'm ugly,' or 'I don't look right,' or 'my hair is wrong,' and it's such a distraction from what can really elevate you.

Beauty is something inside of us. If you love yourself and accept yourself, that shows on the outside. Beauty is an act-it's how you carry yourself.

Black Girl Magic is a radiant revolution against misogynoir - misogyny directed towards Black women and internalized hatred. Black women are subject to so many societal messages that tell them they are not beautiful, smart, or capable. Black Girl Magic is the conscious unraveling of those toxic concepts through self-love and acceptance. It preaches that despite the pressures I face, I glow more than ever before.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.