Quotes About Identity

I feel like I lived my life in one of three places: at Indian Hill Park, at a Manasquan school or at the beach.

First woman of colour, first Black person and first Jewish woman elected to lead a major federal party - it was never going to be a walk in the park.

Charlie Parker said, 'Jazz comes from who you are, where you've been, what you've done. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.' It's the same with the revolution.

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

I would love to play an H Mart parking lot.

My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

As far as what part of myself I brought to Five, I've always considered myself not really my age.

'A' comes from Artist. And 'Boogie' from the Bronx. 'The Hoodie' part came from just having a hoodie on a lot.

People assume that I'm an aristocrat, but I don't really feel part of any class.

Our citizens must feel they are part and parcel of this country. This is essential.

I am Anil Kapoor's daughter, so I am always compared with legends. It is a part and parcel of my life.

You know what, man, that's part and parcel of being a black person in this country: everything's harder. It just is.

Wearing heavy jewelry and make-up is a part and parcel of Indian films.

Being a Mormon is not a part-time religion. It is your life. You eat, sleep, and breathe Mormonism.

I live in a female-dominated household, so I'm like a partial woman myself.

I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.