Quotes About Identity

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

It used to be that I'd do drag, then get out of drag, and try and be as much of a boy as possible. That didn't feel entirely authentic for me, but it felt like what I had to do at the time.

I always knew that if I built my name up as an entity, that would be bigger than me just rappin'.

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.

My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.

I actually hate being called an entrepreneur.

I'm not an entrepreneur.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.

Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.

I have my own career. I'm an environmentalist.

Most of my career as an engineer, I was put in environments where I was the only person of color in the room.

Suddenly, I'm like this political Ann Landers, which is a role I'd never envisioned for myself.

People have told me to change it over the years, but my dad is always saying, 'Never change your name!' My middle name is O'Hara, so it's a pretty epic name. Emily O'Hara Ratajkowski.

Not only are we like the epitome of the American dream, we've been successful at the sport for so long that we know the Lopez name will always be part of the taekwondo world.

Israel is a Jewish state. It isn't a state of all its nations. That is, equal rights to all citizens but not equal national rights.

I said that my parents had come from India. They thought America was a place where people were treated equally, and their kids would have an amazing life.

All black art, post-slavery, has always tried to prove in its own way that a black life is the equivalent of anyone else's.

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.

I think it's impossible to be a young black male from the South, born to an era I was born in, and not have a clear sense of what race really means in the country.

There were eras of English music where people tried to rap in American accents and we lost our way.