Quotes About Identity

I didn't have a childhood.

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

I didn't really get a normal childhood.

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

I still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time.

If I shave, I don't have a chin anymore.

I am almost famous in China, because I have that Broadway cachet.

I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.

If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He's never much liked China or the whole idea behind China or Chinese ways of thinking. He's always been much more attracted to American ways of thinking. He feels Americans are more open - they tell you what they think - and he's very much that way himself.

My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats.

Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

It is my strong belief that the Chinese people are just as proud as we Americans are proud.

Chinese people need to be aware of their present and ask, 'What's our culture? What can we bring to the world?' I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Any time you get into that chip on the shoulder, trying to prove that I can do this and I can do that, it takes away from what you're capable of doing and who you are as a player, as well as a person.

Part of the challenge of being a black Republican anywhere is that you start off with people walking in with chips on their shoulder trying to figure out what is wrong with you.

I wear the chips that I have on my shoulder with pride.

I remember I went through a period where I didn't embrace my 'chocolatiness.' I don't know if that's a word, but I didn't embrace my chocolate lifestyle. Just being a chocolate, lovely brown skin girl and being proud of that.

I am no more the 'chocolate boy.' Still, romance is always going to be a part of my life.