Greil Marcus Quotes

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

One creates oneself.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

To transcend and be yourself... I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I wouldn't push my kids to do anything. I want them to be happy, healthy, and I want them to be who they want to be, you know?

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

I want to be defined by my own essence.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.