Quotes About Identity

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

My family is very large. 42 million.

I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the "Kazee" is not.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.

He who is not proud of his own blood is not worthy of it.

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

I felt different born into a family with two sisters who are blonde and blue-eyed, with me being the only brunette.

Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'