Quotes About Identity

I believe if I was white I would've been England captain for more than 10 years.

You can never hold too much back because no one will ever really capture who the real Eva Marie is.

The '65 Impala is pretty much me as a car.

I ain't no wild card!

You have a song, and people know it. It's like a calling card for you.

Playing the race card is done as if it were some kind of sport.

Most Japanese-Americans have that legacy. The camp experience is something of a calling card between them. They say, 'So, where were you interned?'

I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough.

I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.

I wasn't raised in a family that cared about how you look. The fact that I have made my living in acting, where that matters, that really feels antithetical to me as a person.

For more than 20 years my identity was bonded with those people on death row, I cared about them.

I play the role of my career in 'Dhanam.'

I am a completely different player to Ballack and Schweinsteiger. I admire the careers they have had - I hope mine will be like theirs - but I am not the same.

One of my careers just before ring announcing was that I worked as a model.

I've heard, 'You're not your father.' Well, you're right. I'm not. We've had two different careers.

A lot of political things would have to dramatically change in this planet for a woman of color to be carefree.

I don't know a single black girl who's carefree because it ain't easy being a girl of color, period. God, I wish we were carefree.

I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

I tell you, those old dudes who say, 'I don't care about fashion,' they're not going out in drag. Everyone cares about fashion.

A lot of my life is just - a lot of my life I've just felt like a piece of meat. No one actually really cares, they only care if you're playing.

We don't live in a world that nurtures and cares for Black girls like me. And if the world doesn't care about a Black girl like me, then what will happen to our Black babies who grow up to become Black children and Black adults?

'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.

I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.

The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.