Quotes About Identity

I want to put something on the screen that audiences have never seen black actors do before, roles that will widen views of who African-Americans are.

After six months of playing Chris Darden, it's very hard for me to separate my views from his.

For the left-leaning, political identity is liable to be closely intertwined with personal identity. The left is collusive, if not presumptuous: should you get on well with leftists at a party, they will blithely assume that you share the same views on the invasion of Iraq, even if all you've talked about is the canapes.

Muslim views are not a monolithic blob.

To me, 'Kita y Fernanda' is very much an American story, and I know some people are going to think it's a Latina story, but it's about shifting people's paradigms and views of what it is to be American.

I think you shouldn't get my music confused with who I am or who we are, because Yung Lean, from the beginning, is like a character created by me. Yung Lean was everything that Jonatan wasn't. And so me, as a person, and my views on things are certainly different than Yung Lean's views, so you should definitely not get those two mixed up.

Nobody ever wants to hire me or offer me a job. I think I'm really talented; I really do. Like, people may not like my views about Muslims or whatever.

People know more about my views than they do about most BBC presenters because I had a life before becoming a BBC presenter.

It is not the case that I can predict your views knowing that you are a white male. I cannot predict your views if you are a black female, and it is height of both arrogance and condescension to think that somebody can be type casted on the base of.

I'm not ashamed of my social media following, my Sports Illustrated swimsuit shoot, or the tough time I had in my LPGA debut, but these small facets of my life are easily manipulated by the Internet to get views, and they don't define me as a person.

Brands don't just care about views. Brands care about their brand first.

American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is. Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.

If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage their people to feel pride and vigor in other ways.

I've said it for a long time that Aston Villa is a special club.

There were times while I was injured at Villa when I felt like I was a ghost.

Everyone knows me from my time at Arsenal. No-one really remembers me at Boro or Villa.

I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.

My father is from the village of Beranci, Macedonia, and my mother is from Greece.

I think if I hadn't been born in a pit village I'd have been part of a dramatic society.

I'd rather sell groundnuts in my village than to play for a pathetic team like Chelsea.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

I don't need to move to the States; I love our little village, Ibstock.

The second child of a small farmer with six children, I come from a village in Bihar on the border of Nepal called Belwa. I was there till the age of 17 and studied in a Hindi-speaking boarding school run by Catholics in a nearby district town.

I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I'm not sure if they lost their sense of smell over the years, but they always seemed to smell like they poured a bottle of perfume on themselves. I never want to become that person.