Quotes About Identity

My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.

Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.

I wanted to make a movie about a black family in Middle America. I wanted to make a film where everyone can look at them and say, 'This is my family.'

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

I went to white schools and I didn't know anything about black history.

What 'March' is saying is that it doesn't matter whether we are black or white, Latino or Asian. It doesn't matter whether we are straight or gay.

Almost anyone can give me the willies. Man or woman, Asian, black or white, young or old.

Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.

So often, blackness is seen in a negative light.

I love my blackness... I love my queerness.

You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.

I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real.

'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.

My actual real name is Bianca Blair.

I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.

The rise of ISIS, the orgy of identity politics, and the political changes they brought - how could Obama not see that coming? I blame the golf.

We can't blame ourselves for how we're shaped. That's how we were born. Embrace it.

I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

I've stopped blaming myself for being a woman. I've stopped being apologetic about my sexuality and become comfortable with myself.

Throughout my life, I've known that if I change my hair, if I change my look, people I know will blank me in the street.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 'Beach Blanket' was one of the most important experiences of my whole life. It's part of me.

I saw this Facebook video of a boy, probably around seven, wearing a dress he had fashioned from a blanket, sashaying through his house while his mother applauded and cheered him on. He was so proud. It was such a beautiful thing but bittersweet because I knew his spirit would change soon: that he'd become self-aware and ashamed at some level.