Make lots of noise _x000D_ Kiss lots of boys _x000D_ Or kiss lots of girls _x000D_ If that's something you're into _x000D_ When the straight and narrow _x000D_ Gets a little too straight _x000D_ Roll up a joint (or don't) _x000D_ Just follow your arrow _x000D_ Wherever it points.
Interpretation
Embrace your true self and authenticity, regardless of societal expectations.
This quote encourages individuals to live life on their own terms, promoting the idea of following one's own path and desires. It suggests that whether through romantic expressions or personal choices, one should not conform to traditional norms but rather pursue what genuinely makes them happy.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a school assembly to inspire students to embrace their differences.
I go back to St. Lucia, and the exhilaration I feel is not simply the exhilaration of homecoming and of nostalgia. It is almost an irritation of feeling: 'Well, you never got it right. Now you have another chance. Maybe you can try and look harder.'
That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.
Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
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