Quotes About Identity

I'm an Arizona boy.

My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!

Most of my family is from Arkansas on my Mom's side, and my Dad's family is from up north in Chicago.

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

Fashion is really our armor in the world.

A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.

I am an adoptive parent. My wife and I adopted our daughter nine years ago. She was born in China. We have been her parents since she was nine and a half months old, and we don't know very much about her life before we first took her into our arms.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

My father's family didn't really know much about our ancestry. I mean, they had the story that I think a lot of white Americans have, which is, well, we came from Europe. And we arrived here.

It's best to know a little about where you're coming from and why you've arrived where you are.

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.

Black people, too, are capable of being culturally arrogant.

I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'

I'm so proud to play for a big club like Arsenal.

I am proud to be a part of Arsenal, and I see my future at this great club.

I feel really good at Arsenal.

I'm not an Arsenal fan. I am not from London.

I play the way I do because it's the Arsenal way.

When I was a child, I was an Arsenal fan.

Arsenal has always been special for me.

The important thing for me is we want to keep the ball, we want to have the ball because we are Arsenal football club.

Arsenal will always remain a large club.

Wenger built this club and it is hard to imagine Arsenal without him.

It's easier to be the art school band than to be the Beatles.