Quotes About Identity

I am not walking around looking like Luke Cage does at all.

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.

When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.

I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model.

I know that my heart and my family are here in California, not in Washington, D.C.

More than any other place, New York is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place on the planet. I can be who I am there, and I couldn't do that anywhere I lived as a child. I never fit in when I lived in California, even though that's where my roots are.

I am from Pomona, California. I was born in Los Angeles.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

Each person has their own calling on this Earth.

My mom has been calling me Peep my whole life. That's how I got the name.

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

I've been calling myself 'just an actor' since I was 6 years old. That's a long time.

Why is the Right so afraid of being called racist? Why do they attack their allies on the Right, even calling us racist?

Before I came out, the thought of someone calling me gay, even when I knew very well that I was, was petrifying.

I'm not gonna respond to people calling me a race baiter. It doesn't serve me. Also, I'm not a race baiter.

I think people should be authentic and who they are. If that calls people to same-sex attraction and same-sex marriage, then they should be true to who they are, and I think that the world could benefit by more love.

I'm just Jeffree. Everyone calls me he/she/whatever they want to call me; I'm an alien.

Everyone calls me 'Dee.'