Quotes About Identity

I'm a white guy in a black sport. I really forget about it until someone asks me about it. I'm simply competing in a sport that I love.

I am not competing with anybody from India.

I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

I do not have a competitive advantage when fighting another woman.

Growing up, I always got 'She's a man,' or 'She plays too hard,' or 'There's just no way that she can be that good because, you know, a girl can't do that.' And I struggle with it a little bit. I'm like: Well, am I going too hard? And then I just realized, like, I'm a competitor.

In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.

Competitors, even friends that would say things that were so homophobic, and - I don't think that they realized necessarily the impact that it was having on me, because I was in the closet, and I think that that's what made me really scared to come out.

I'm not a docile, complacent person when it comes to racial aggressions.

I haven't found anything to complain about. But being Scottish, it won't be long.

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

You should never need a guy to make you feel complete.

If I'm not working, I don't feel complete.

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

The Black Lives Matter movement has to, by its very nature, be intersectional because of the complexities of who black people are in this country and throughout the world.

As a kid, I didn't know much about Prince - who he was and all the complexities of his personality - but I could still feel very close to him when I listened to his music.

In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways.

I'm a black, gay man, and I should be able to live in a world where I'm able to live in the complexity of my identity in a way that is safe and secure, like everyone else.

Fame doesn't allow for complexity, especially complexity of character.

It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.

Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that.

I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being.