Tag: be yourself quotes

Oct 5, 2026

“Don’t change or limit who you are in order to fit in or please other people.” — Sebastian Croft | Quote of the Day

Sebastian Croft, the English actor and singer who played Ben Hope in Netflix’s Heartstopper and is competing on the second series of The Celebrity Traitors, on the line from his 2023 AnOther magazine interview ‘The advice I would give to my younger self’ — shaped by the dyslexia and the self-consciousness he had to grow past: don’t change or limit who you are in order to fit in or please other people.

Sebastian Croft

Sep 23, 2026

“I’m just myself. It’s only when I leave the front door that I become a black woman to the world.” — Bonnie Greer | Quote of the Day

Bonnie Greer — the Chicago-born playwright, novelist and critic who moved to Britain in 1986, won the Verity Bargate Award for her play Munda Negra, was appointed OBE in 2010 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022, and died on September 15, 2026, at 77 — on the distance between the self she woke up as and the self the world insisted on naming. From a 2016 Guardian interview, it is a quiet, exact statement about identity, race and who gets to do the defining.

Bonnie Greer