Quotes About Identity

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

If people don't like who you are, they aren't meant to be in your life.

I think that my whole journey had been getting to the place where I can accept myself for who I am, to be the woman that I'm meant to be, but you have to get there first.

It's certain I never was meant to be an actor.

What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.

I've always been the Rodney Dangerfield of this game. Maybe it was meant to be that way, but that always drove me.

I never meant to be an actress.

I was always meant to be Khali.

Michael was the first person to show me what it meant to be a star... but you cannot be that star and not accept all the things that came with it.

I think we are all individuals at the end of the day. There's nothing about culture that can prescribe who you're meant to be.

When youth live in fear of becoming who they are, as adults, they can't become the creative beings that we are meant to be on this planet.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

I've never let anyone measure me in my entire life, but I think I'm 5-11.

I've been 5-6 since I've been at least 17 or 18. I think somebody made a mistake on the measurements.

When you talk to people in fashion, it's like, people wear clothes because it's who they are and what they like. It's as simple as that. It's just about creating a way of measuring that.

I am a girl, not a piece of meat.

I don't know where my medals are.

Music is this medium to express who I am and what I've been through and my thoughts and what my feelings on the world are. We're all on the planet together; I'm just using this medium to express how I see it.

I guess I just do 'emasculated' and 'meek' very well.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

You have to be resilient to be a black person in America. The thing about being resilient is being able to fall apart and pick yourself up again. And putting yourself back together, that improves on what you were before.

Even though I'm not Jamaican, I've always loved Jamaican culture because, to me, it's the island of magic, it's the island of politics, of resistance.

I don't think roles help you resolve your issues. I just think they're good markers.

It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.