Quotes About Identity

Back in the day, I was definitely a child of alternative radio.

I forget that I can play guitar and that I can perform very well. It's like having an alternative life.

I find that people look to personalize their fashion alternatives.

I never had an amateur career; I didn't go to college in America; when I came out on tour nobody knew who I was.

When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are.

I'm amazed if people are happy in their own skin.

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

I'm always trying to be a good ambassador for my country.

I am Indian-American, but I often play ethnically ambiguous roles.

After 'Amen' people started recognising me. It made me think that acting is better than direction.

I'm very American.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

African American culture is American culture.

I grew up watching films of predominantly white families speaking in English, and that this represented the American experience.

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

American men are like women.

American music culture is black culture.

I don't think there is much American music.

I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

I could care less whether the American public knows what I look like.

For all the anti-Americanism around the world, people have this love of Americana.

My family, I can say, is pretty Americanized. My son has lived pretty much all his life in Chicago, my daughter was born in Chicago, we all like Chicago.

I'm amongst you all, but I'm not one of you all.

The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet. You're not going to hear it there.