Quotes About Identity

The most you can do is stand up for what you believe in. I'm much happier since coming out to my friends and family. Being genuine and honest makes me happy.

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

A family is something very static and hard to escape, so everybody has a certain role over the years, no matter if you like it or not.

I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

Its really good to have so distinctive a name as an actress. No one ever forgets it. My sister and brother are called Perdita and Rollo. Actually, my family calls me Hollyhocks.

In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.

Without my family, I would be nothing.

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.

The European family may well be anything but perfect.

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.