Quotes About Identity

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.

Culture is central to what makes us human.

America has been central to my life.

Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

When I go to the shopping centre, I'm not the GC. I'm just there with my mum.

In my 20s, I just had to be the centre of attention all the time. I was quite eccentric.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

There were no small brown kids as the centre of the children's fiction I grew up with.

When I was made CEO of Reynolds the first time, someone asked me what it was like to be a female CEO. But I said, 'I don't know what its like to be a male CEO, so I can't really answer that question.'

We all aren't in government, we all aren't CEOs, but we all are somebody.

I had an education at a mainstream school, I went to university, I got a job and with my cerebral palsy have been a successful and independent human being and I am proud of who I am.

No matter how good of an actor I am, I can't un-act having cerebral palsy.

I don't think I'd know I had cerebral palsy if other people didn't tell me.

The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

You get to a certain age, and you learn what looks good on you.

My family is Jamaican. We were just the slaves that were dropped off over there. And at the end of the day when you live and exist as a Black person in America, at least to white society, to a certain extent, no one is asking where you're from and where you were born.

When I get to a certain level, I'll start going by Daystar.

There are certain things that people love to do, and they can't really explain it. That's me and football. The game gives me hope. It lets me be myself.

I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.

It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.

The league wants certain things. They want certain guys. I'm just not one of them. But I can't help the way I am.