Quotes About Identity

As far as how I grew up, and who is in my life, it's still a very complicated thing as far as how I want to get that across.

It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

I had a really complicated relationship with acting for a long time.

I would like to do more millennial, Latina, complicated stories.

I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.

We were from a predominantly white area, my dad was black and my mum was white, so that had its complications.

You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you.

The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'

I've been cast as myself so many times, I guess I should catch on and figure out if it's a compliment.

I know when people say I'm some sort of Cinderella Man that it's meant as a compliment. I appreciate that, but to be totally honest, it doesn't feel like one, because it isn't true.

If people really want to know whether I am a woman or transsexual, I take it as a compliment. It means I'm doing my job well.

If you're going to compare me to somebody and it's going to be Carrie Underwood, I will absolutely take that as a compliment.

I've gotten a lot of compliments on the 'Criminal Minds' guy. I guess it's because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.

I usually get a lot of compliments from people as they can't believe I'm the same person when they meet me.

My private joke about 'Luke Cage' is that it's a bulletproof version of 'Lemonade,' and that, essentially, it's a concept album that has a video component.

It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're also supposed to be able to write characters and scenes in a way where it's just a matter of fact, a component.

I don't really call myself a composer.

I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

When you are known as this cutting-edge composer all the time... it's no longer cutting-edge.

I never jump on to a song and say 'I will only sing it.' I am not too obsessed as a singer. I am happy being a composer.

See, I have two selves in me - a musician and a composer.