Quotes About Identity

I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves.

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.

I'm competitive but I'm not butch.

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

My full name is Ross Fleming Butler; it's very British-Irish.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

With '3 Mics', there's nothing I'm talking about that's too hot button.

I am Nigel 'Benjamin Button' Benn, it's not about age.

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

I have two belly buttons.

Going blonde is like buying yourself a light bulb!

I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.

I love performing, and I love the idea of people buying records. I don't particularly like the idea of people knowing me or thinking they do, but that's a part of what I choose. I choose not to go to college; I choose to be a singer.

People are buying my life when they're buying those records. I hate to sound bigheaded or something, but that's the reality of it. Suddenly, everything you've been doing means something.

When people ask where I'm from, I tell them Washington, because that's where I feel the most comforted by the people.

I didn't happen to be one of those gay kids who knew definitively by the time I was 13.

If you can build up a sense of self-confidence if you're non-white by the time you're 15, 16 then that can't be taken away from you.

By the time I went to college, I had totally embraced my Indianness, but I still didn't tell anyone I could sing.

By the time I was a teenager I'd decided what my son's name would be - River.

I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.

I'd rather be known for my talent, for what I can do in the cage. I'm sure that will come.

Our Luke Cage is a black hero, not a hero who happens to be black.

When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.