Quotes About Identity

At home in my room, I'm funny, but if I'm commissioned to be that, I don't feel very funny.

I don't understand why brothers can't understand the fact, or even just accept the fact, you can still be a man without having to commit crimes.

For me, earnestness is the greatest crime an Englishman can commit.

With 'Acoustic Soul,' I saw my music as sparse. But I didn't do that because I was making a commitment to be commercial. That's what made 'Acoustic Soul' so difficult to produce. It took 2 1/2 years because I couldn't figure out what I wanted and still be commercial.

I am a very committed European.

I remain committed to telling the stories of women of the African diaspora, particularly those stories that don't often find their way into the mainstream media.

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

I am not a saleable commodity.

I wouldn't say I'm a commodity. I try not to think about it too much.

In my country, I am just a common man... a nobody.

I have the common sense to know that my disability is what makes me stand out. But I don't want to be thought of as just 'the comic with cerebral palsy.'

I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that.

Through style, you can communicate to the world who you are and what you stand for.

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.

I fled communism as a child. That's an experience that can shape you forever.

I've never said I'm a communist.

I love my community. I love always being able to come back and have a home.

No, I don't belong to a retirement community.

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

While we might now have expanded into the U.S.A. with our California office, I'm a Coundon girl born and bred and proud that Crafter's Companion is based in the North East of England.

I don't want to compare but when you're a Manchester United player, you're a Manchester United player for life.