Quotes About Identity

I remember growing up watching John Hughes movies and watching these white kids from suburban Chicago. I connected to them even though I didn't live in their environment.

I came from the heart of the ghetto - there ain't no suburbia in me.

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

Great rock n' roll comes from suburbia.

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.

When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a film, and I felt I knew the characters, or I was the characters. It really dredged up all this stuff in me that never went away.

When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.

If you from Philly, you ain't a Villanova guy. Villanova is the suburbs. That's all you know about Villanova.

At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone.

I grew up in the suburbs, sometimes country-like suburbs because we moved around, but mostly suburbs.

Being an Indian in the U.S. and growing up in the suburbs were the two things that really shaped my outlook.

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.

I grew up in Paris. Well, in the suburbs of Paris.

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York.

I'm from the suburbs and where I'm from didn't necessarily have people like you see in 'Suburgatory,' but along those lines and I think people will laugh at themselves. And it's lighthearted.

'Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other.

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.

When you're 17 in the suburbs and know only three gay people, holding hands with your girlfriend is a proclamation.

To me, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and my identity is of a suburban Chicago person. It's not like, 'Oh, I'm Indian.' I'm not. I'm American.

That's the trouble with the suburbs: it's not a city, so you're not anonymous, and it's not a small town, so that people really care about you, but everybody kind of knows each other's business, so you're very judged.

In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.

Most black families went from the South to the city. My family went from the South to the city to the suburbs because they wanted their children to have the realization of the suburban lifestyle. What does it mean that that doesn't actually protect you?