Quotes About Identity

When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.

I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.

I've always been interested in rootedness - mainly, I suppose, because I had very little experience of it.

I'm interested in people who are dwelling outside the mainstream. And very often, those people happen to be woman of color.

Black people are not often considered mainstream.

For me, it was important to keep my name in 'mainstream Hollywood.'

We have always appealed to people outside of the mainstream. Constantly, we get people coming up to us and saying, 'I was just the freakiest one in high school. I was the only one who kept playing the B-52's.'

I just feel like, at any moment, a drag or a trans or a gender-diverse artist that doesn't fit in a box is ready to break into the mainstream. I want to do my best to put myself in the best position to have that happen for me.

If you start as a Christian artist trying to be mainstream, you're done from the beginning.

You do need to maintain some of yourself and know who you are, but that doesn't mean you can't evolve.

No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.

I was an English major.

The majority of women in America look like me.

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.

We are what make up society.

When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.

There's no way we could make up what we are. The group is just what everyone is. Each of us has a different audience.

Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.

I feel like I've established myself as a music maker in my own right.

I want to be a guy, but I want to wear a lot of makeup.