Quotes About Identity

English is not my language.

When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.

I have done films in nine languages and am known in as many states.

When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.

I was born in Sri Lanka.

A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.

Being a model is a large part of who I am, and acting is my life's passion.

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

I don't see that we're any different than many, many people that are out there. And it's hard to kind of accept something like we're larger than life, super-people or something like that.

I don't think I can remain anonymous for that much longer. It was fun while it lasted. Very fun.

I had no idea I would be able to have a career in drag that's lasted this long, at the level that I get to do it at.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.

I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records I've made over the years, I was finding my voice, and that's part of the process.

I was a late bloomer, and that was my issue growing up.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

Being African didn't mean anything to me until later in my life.

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.

My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.

My dad was big about talking about baseball and Latin players.

I want to represent all the Latin people. I want to do this for the rest of my life.

I talk to everyone, but most of the people I hang out with are Latin.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

I never thought of myself as a woman leader or Latina leader; I just thought of myself as a leader.