You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.
RihannaRead
When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion.
Interpretation
Fashion is about creativity and personal expression, often involving risks and experimentation.
In this quote, Rihanna emphasizes the importance of daring to be unique and finding personal expression in fashion. She notes that the excitement comes from experimenting with different silhouettes and styles, challenging herself to create something that resonates with her identity, underscoring the thrill that comes from making fashion personal and distinctive.
In practice
This quote can be shared during fashion events to inspire designers.
You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.
I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment - I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I'm on to the next thing. I don't want to get lost in this big cushion of success.
When it comes to everybody else's thing and their lane and their timing, I'm never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody's biggest mistake if that's their intention.
Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.
People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.
Once you're back on your feet - if you ever make it back on your feet - that's the ultimate achievement. I remember I was in New York at the Trump Hotel and I woke up and I just knew I was over it. It was a different day. I felt different. I didn't feel lonely. I felt like I wanted to get up and be in the world. That was a great, great feeling.
The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.
Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.
Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.
If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.
It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.
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