Quotes About Identity

Black women in music are always expected to sing R&B or soul: we are always boxed in.

Sometimes I just want to sit in my boxer shorts and cry. That's what being a human is.

I'm not a boxer, I'm a basketball player.

I'm not like a full athlete. But I'm definitely a boxer.

People will sometimes put each other in boxes and have biases toward one another because of what they look like or where they come from or who they are. But ultimately, it's up to us to decide who we are.

I'm sick of people putting boxes around everyone, telling you where and how you have to fit in.

I don't fit neatly into anybody's political boxes, and I think that sometimes disturbs people. But I don't think most Alaskans fit neatly into the Republican box or the Democratic box. They don't think of themselves that way.

As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.

It's not all the time, but you get a sense when you're reading something that it's no longer about boxing or the performance. It's personal.

Boxing has always been like a sanctuary for me. It's been a place that I could go and be somebody.

Boxing has been everything for me as long as I can remember.

Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.

If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.

The boxing public aren't interested in knowing me. They want to know The Hayemaker, the one who gives it big.

I've definitely changed as a person because of professional boxing.

I don't think I look like a boy, but I don't think androgyny is such a bad thing.

I love being in the Beastie Boys.

I don't want to be a pretty boy.

I'm not a rude boy; I'm my own thing.

I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as anguished-sounding.

I loved when my boyfriends would call me their Amazon girl.

I'm the kind of girl who always has a boyfriend.

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.