“Be yourself, be yourself.”— Lailah Gifty Akita Related Quotes “I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.”– Anna Deavere Smith “I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.”— Bibhu Mohapatra “How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.”— Euripides