Quotes About Identity

I want to give my daughter that Caribbean influence. But also, just being a black girl in this country, I want her to grow up with culture and confidence, and with love.

The Shaun Ryder in the Happy Mondays isn't the real Shaun Ryder. It's a caricature. Always has been.

I don't dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.

Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.

I think a caricature is different than a character.

I'm a gay black guy. If I can't ask questions without caring what people think of me, who can?

Carol City crazy, man, but it's home at the same time.

I just want to build awareness for my city. But if it wasn't for Carol City, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

I was born with confidence in myself and who I am. Even when I was a little kid, I felt that, and I carried it all through my years. I'm 26 now, and I'm still that person. I think every woman needs to have that self-love.

When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie carried on the shoulders of someone who looked like me.

Everybody loves me so much, they just want to carry me around. Sometimes I think to myself, 'When am I going to stand, because I'm being carried all day?'

I guess, as an Emanuel, I have a voice that carries.

I am very aware of my family name. I'm very aware of the legacy that that kind of carries with it. And I think that I didn't want to lose any kind of hold of that. And I think once you're born into something that you're proud of and that you're aware of, you don't take it lightly.

Oui, dans mon rêve, j'étais un crayon, mais admittedly, I'd more suitably be characterized as a plump carrot.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

It's difficult for him, carrying the name. But Axel is doing what he likes to do, and for me, if Axel's happy, I'm also happy.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

I can walk in a room of people who may not know Christ and still be myself. And they can still see Christ in me even though they may not know who it is, but I know that they can see that in me and I'm carrying that with me.

I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my shoulders.

It makes a lot of sense to me that I would be a cartoon. I feel like a cartoon as a person. I really, really do.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.