Quote

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

I am no longer afraid to say anything.

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

I had a fear of being alone.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

I used to be so afraid to say what I really think.

I wasn't afraid to be who I am. I didn't think anything was wrong with it.

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

No, I was never afraid.

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.