"People always ask me, 'You have so much confidence. Where did that come from?' It came from me. One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl … It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it." ― Gabourey Sidibe
"I just assumed that at the time if I could display a talent worthy of praise. . . that I wasn't just who you thought I was, I thought I wouldn't be fat anymore. That may seem silly, I know that now. But at the time, I thought that if I could just get the world to see me the way I saw myself, that my body wouldn't be the thing you walked away thinking about. I wouldn't be that fat girl, I wouldn't be that dark skinned girl. I'd be Gabby I'd be human" ― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
"Don't let anyone else take away your joy. If they don't want to be with you or around you, let them go. Pick up your shit and keep going. You came into the world by yourself, and the next person's lungs don't help you breathe." ― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
"we are genuinely discussing how we envision ourselves fighting off an attack. Really, it's something that all mothers and daughters should discuss. The same way that all fathers and sons should discuss why no one should ever be raped in the first place." ― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
"Did this bitch not know I was being sarcastic? I hate that sarcasm is hard to convey in a text. There should be a special font for sarcasm so people can tell when I'm being an asshole." ― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
"I don't think it's funny when a stranger calls me a fat bitch no matter what they're offering to do for me. I don't think it's funny that I'm not allowed to say that my feelings are hurt. Feelings aren't an absence of strength." ― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
"It seems as though if I cured cancer and won a Nobel Prize someone would say, "Sure, cancer sucks and I'm glad there's a cure, but her body is just disgusting. She needs to spend less time in the science lab and more time in the gym!" ― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
"One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it." ― Gabourey Sidibe
"Feelings aren't an absence of strength. I know this for sure. So why should I pretend to have a sense of humor just to allow someone else to take a shot at me?" ― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
"Money changes people. It changed the way my family saw me. It changed how they interacted with me. Perhaps more than it changed them, it changed how I saw them as well." ― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
"But I didn't feel honored. I felt offended. So offended that I planned to ignore for the next few weeks the "friends" who'd sent me those pictures. (I'm very organized in my pettiness, and I like to plan ahead.)" ― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
"You keep your horrible boyfriend around because you feel like shit, and he's the only one around who agrees with you. He validates the part of you that thinks you deserve bad things instead of good things. When you start believing that you deserve good things, you'll dump him because he won't fit anymore. But for now, he treats you like shit because that's what you want." ― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
"When I say that I'm beautiful, I don't say it so someone will clap and think I'm brave. I'm not doing it so that someone will comment on how confident I am. I don't say it with ego and I don't say it defensively. I don't say it meaning that people who look like me are better than people who look like you. I say it because I believe it. I've earned every centimeter of my beauty. It has taken me years to realize that what I was born with, what was shaped, the mold it took, is all beautiful." ― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
"It was nice even if it didn't really make us a closer family. But we're not as fractured as I sometimes think. We're all we have, yes, but we're enough." ― Gabourey Sidibe, This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare
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