Quotes About Identity

Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

Thug Life to me is dead.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society.

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it.

Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs.

I am society's child. This is how they made me and now I'm sayin' what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me, America.

If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

where my culture I'm told holds no significance I'll wither and die in ignorance But my inner eye can c a race who reigned as kings in another place

It's a public service when a gay chick goes lipstick instead of lumberjack.

Another thing about knowing who you are is that you know what you should not be doing, which can save you a lot of heartaches and false starts if you catch it early on.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

we steady thud of wind with lungs that empty moon, fill it back up with shine, feed my feet to pig iron anklets biting flesh where i am link. i will break. bleed, crack. shatter. crush. i'ma smash outta this choir, come up gasping new breath, my name burned clean, made mine

The more extreme conservatives will embrace religion and nationalism to a higher degree.

perhaps we are not as free as we might think in the first place. Given your background, your friends, your family, the books you read, and the movies you watch, how surprising is your vote in a federal election?

Mark Liszewski, executive director of the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum (Hershey, Pennsylvania), remarked: "Instead of Ford versus Chevy, it's Apple versus Android. And instead of customizing their ride, today's teens customize their phones with covers and apps. You express yourself through your phone, whereas lately, cars have become more like appliances, with 100,000-mile warranties.

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

Don't let people change who you are just be who you are with someone else.

Never wish to be somebody else.

It ain't what people call you. It's what you answer to.

What I have learned in this life is that you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

My savvy grandfather, who owned a juke joint, always carried a straight razor in his pocket, and was nobody's fool, saw the truth behind Emmitt's big-man act. He knew he was a fake.

When you know your worth, when you know your value, your life changes and you change lives.