“To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, ‘I was born this way baby.”

Sometimes in life you don’t always feel like a winner, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a winner.

Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don’t care about anymore.

My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.

Art perpetuates beauty. Beauty is a symptom of the force that is nature. You are a force of nature, I love you.

Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.

This is who the fuck I am.

I’m just a holy fool

I’m a free bitch baby.

It’s cooler to be strong.

I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.

They can’t scare me, if I scare them first.

Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.

I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, It’s OK to be sad. I’ve been trained to love my darkness.

Cause it’s a hard life, with love in the world. and i’m a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.