Quotes About Identity

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.

I paint paintings of people.

I don't really look like people in films; I look like people in paintings.

My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world.

A role is a role where I play someone else, but when it comes to paintings, it is me. It is unadulterated Shefali and there is no control and I can let go. I am unabashedly unapologetic about it. That is what is interesting about my paintings.

I don't feel I can get used to my face wearing glasses... more than one pair of glasses, or any one pair until a cataclysmic, cosmic event causes me to get a new pair.

Buy one pair of knickers or underpants from Marks & Spencer. Then you'll truly be like a Brit!

The first picture of me that I know of was me in the crib wearing a pair of cowboy boots.

I dress up like a boy and I'm most comfortable in a pair of jeans and T-shirt.

I probably have over a hundred pairs of high-heel shoes. I collect them. Over however-many years, from, like, the mid-'80s on - yes, I'm that old - I've been in drag several times in my life, and I collect a lot of stuff, and I do have a lot of high-heel shoes that I'm sure a lot of people would be jealous about.

My mom used to call me a 'jean hoarder' growing up because I had so many pairs of jeans - and I still do.

I hate to admit it, because it makes me sound weird, but I'm Mr. Shoes. I own over 30 pairs.

When I think of Paisley, I think of everything that has shaped my life.

We boast about Pakistan. We say Pakistan is this and that. But when you go out of the country and the way we are checked, I can't tell you. I feel so humiliated the way I am frisked.

I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.

I have played 20 years of international cricket for Pakistan and not the PCB.

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.

When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be.