Quotes About Identity

I don't want to have my face on the cover of a Wheaties box. I wanna have my face on the cover of a Rice Krispies box. "Snap, Krackle, Mitch and Pop"!

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

When I was a little kid I always wanted to be ginger. My best friend was ginger and he was pretty cool.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be Face. I thought, cos I had blond hair and he did too, that when I grew up I'd look like him.

A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.

I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz funny.

Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.

Moshe Dayan, who said to Sammy Davis, Jr., That's funny, to me you only look half Jewish. Never got a dinner!

Viral videos arent just about being funny. Theyre about identity creation.

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

I was often the only white girl in the Indian dance class. That felt funny, but doing Indian dance was great.

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.

I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.

It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."

I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

Bridal is always about who you are as a person and as a woman and as a lover and as a mate. People always ask me how a woman can pick just one dress. And the funny thing is they always know.