3. In what ways have you yet to accept the fact that you are who you are, not the person you think you ought to be?

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Sometimes it hurts the most to be who you are

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself you never really knew. They are what make the instrument stretch what make you go beyond the norm

To embrace “WHAT” I AM TO MANY NOT “WHO” I AM.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

One of the beautiful things about getting to know yourself is realizing all the places where you’ve been trying really hard to feel welcomed and the people who don’t truly see or accept you as you are.

The biggest hurdle I think I had was fighting to be authentic and creating a mark within the industry without having to change who I am

It’s also a challenge to push myself into spaces I may not be entirely comfortable with to grow, to transform.

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

To become what one is, one must not have the faintest idea what one is.

Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.