Quotes About Identity

I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

I hope maybe somehow I won't be in this business all my life, and I won't be one of those women that's trying to, you know, save what she looks like... My work is about something completely different. It's about what's inside.

I wanted to be what I am. All my life. A musician and an actor.

I'm black. I've been black all my life, and as far as I know, I'll die black.

All my life, I have lived in the chawls. They are my people.

I was born in Vizianagaram but have lived all my life in Chennai.

People like my voice, which is funny because all my life my family has joked about my nasal voice.

I'm a proud Republican, I've certainly been a Republican all my life.

You can't be all things to all people.

I can't be all things to everyone.

Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers - among blacks, there is always one person who everyone should go to learn about all things black.

I just think I'm the average all-American girl.

I was the all-American face.

NWA was all-American; Wu-Tang was all-American. It was just a part of America you may not have seen at the time.

Personally, do I feel like an All-Star? I don't think so.

I don't really feel an allegiance to any of the countries I have lived in, even though I feel like part of them, and part of them is in me.

I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.

No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

Alone I'm nothing.

Don't know how much of an Alpha I am.

I'm a lapsed altar boy.

One of the biggest things I tell women is not to lose themselves in a relationship. If you're willing to alter yourself to find somebody, it'll never work.

I don't want to alter anything on my body.