You can't deny who you are, so you might as well be yourself in the most authentic way.

If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself,
“How can I participate in this community and still be who I am?

It's a funny thing, how it works...
The moment we stop trying so hard to be someone, we become ourselves--only what was there all along, waiting and peeking out from behind all the masks we wore.
And when this happens, we discover that Who We Really Are is much greater than anything we might have pretended or even hoped to be.

There are more gifts in who you are than there are in who you think you want to be.

Don’t be afraid of being yourself, but be afraid of being somebody else.

You have to be yourself.