Quotes About Identity

Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

Indian artists are working with a history that's overwhelming and rich.

The overwhelming majority of my material has very little to do with my weight. It's certainly not the crux of my material.

I love when an outfit embodies the fluidity of my gender - it makes me feel the most confident and grounded, especially when attending fashion shows, which can be extremely overwhelming.

I owe everything to France.

I owe everything to Punjabi cinema.

I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.

I owe my mother who I am, and my father my drive.

There's this belief sometimes from people who haven't lived the trans experience that's just like, 'You should tell everyone. You owe it to them.' But the truth is, you don't know how people are going to respond. And many people don't even have the language to talk about what their trans experience is, or what it could be.

People who are trans don't owe you their entire history right out the gate, just like you wouldn't walk up to someone and tell them your medical history. You build trust.

Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts.

I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'Outland' than it does to '2001.' The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL.

Owing to cultural beliefs, girls have been taught to be small, disappear and not take our full place in society. But that is not what we are meant to be.

I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that's fine. I'm just going to keep being myself and living my life. That's all I can do.

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

The ego is not master in its own house.

There's no need to dress like everyone else. It's much more fun to create your own look.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

A cultural thing that is funny to me is that every time I go out in D.C. after a show, all the nightclubs and restaurants are owned by Iranians and Afghans. It's funny to me how we lost our countries but we gained the nightlife.

My mother's last name, maiden name is Hogue. She is Cherokee and African. My grandfather, Dave Hogue, owned 300 acres of land in Marion, Alabama. He was an entrepreneur and someone I looked up to as a kid a lot.

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.