Quotes About Labels

I have been called many things, never savior.

It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.

Do not allow a child or an adult to become defined by a DSM label.

The Asperger's child at the gifted meeting is doing well in school, but the Asperger's child at an autism meeting may be in a poor special ed program, bored, and getting into trouble because adults in his life hold lower expectations of his abilities. Unfortunately, in some cases, people are so hung up on the labels attached to students that they teach to these low expectations and aren't even curious to learn if the child is actually more capable.

Parents and teachers should look at the child, not the child's label, and remember that the same genes that produce his Asperger's may have given the child the capacity to become one of the truly great minds of his generation.

Seems we can never just be brother and sister like in other families. Our whole lives, people have felt an urge to make up special names for what we are. at Lafayette Christian, we were the 'Oreo twins' or 'Kimberly and Arnold' after the characters on Diff'rent Strokes. And while those nicknames bugged us, they were certainly preferable to what they call us at Harrison

There isn't a word for homosexual I do like! Having said that, I would never describe myself as "heterosexual", "straight" or anything else. Especially not "bisexual" (it sounds like a sort of communal vehicle missing a mudguard). I like "spontaneous" as a sexual description.

A lot of the time, black people, we don't introduce ourselves as black.

A lot of the time in Ireland we put people into boxes and that's it.

Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.

People who don't understand will try to label me as one or the other. I'm an athlete and a lot of people just have to come to terms with that. I do well in football, I do well in track. It is what it is.

What's there in a name! Some people call me Jai, while others call me Jaggu, Kishan, Jackie, or Bhidu.

I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

I get called Larry more than I get called Joe.

The definitions of ourselves, of others and of everything that surrounds us prevent us from being and understanding who we are, keeping us prisoners of a separate reality based on definitions. We define ourselves and others incessantly with words, judgments, labels based on appearance, age, sex, race, culture, income, intelligence, character, etc. Who are you and who are others beyond their definitions? Please do not answer!

Labels don't mean anything. Who cares about labels when someone is slapping you in the face? Who cares about labels when someone is saving you from drowning? Who someone is and what they do is all that matters.

Labels don't mean anything. Who cares about labels when someone is slapping you in the face? Who cares about labels when someone is saving you from drowning?

It's one thing if a person learns you're a witch. It's quite another if he learns you're a murderer. I almost forget I'm a witch now that I know I'm a murderer—murderess, actually. Murderess sounds so much worse.

Yo tampoco sé lo que soy. ¿Hombre del puente? ¿Cirujano? ¿Soldado? ¿Esclavo? Solo son etiquetas. Dentro, soy yo. Un yo muy distinto del que era hace un año, pero no puedo preocuparme por eso, así que sigo adelante y espero que mis pies me lleven adonde necesito ir. -Kaladin-

Intentarán definirte por medio de algo que no eres -dijo Jasnah-. No lo permitas. Yo puedo ser erudita, mujer, historiadora, Radiante. La gente seguirá intentando clasificarme por lo que me vuelve ajena a ellos. La ironía es que pretenden que lo que no soy, o aquello en lo que no creo, se mi principal seña de identidad. Siempre lo he rechazado, y voy a seguir haciéndolo.

We are complex beings who wake up every day and fight against being labeled and diminished with stereotypes and characterizations that don't reflect our fullness.

Impressions form images that become fixed ideas that give birth to prejudices. Anthony De Mello said, "If you are prejudiced, you will see that person from the eye of that prejudice. In other words, you will cease to see this person as a person."[12] The pharisee within spends most of his time reacting to labels, his own and others'.