Quotes About Identity

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Everybody has their own way to deal with it. I don't concern myself with other people's - whether or not they want to come out, it's not something for me think about.

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally.

A lot of my songs are about things that concern me personally, not a heightened version of myself or any of the characters that I play.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.

When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.

At concerts I felt demeaned, like a vaudevillian.

After watching a movie, you can't conclude that I am the same person in real life too.

I am not my skin. I am a model with a skin condition.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.

We are conditioned to believe that the hero is always a man, but it might not necessarily be so.

At school I used to hang out with the girls - they looked after me but the boys would call me gay and I'd get into fights. They'd push me and I'd push them back. I don't condone violence, but you have to stick up for yourself because no one else will.

I can't be in an environment that is not conducive to me as a black woman.

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

I shaved my head once and learned that I've got, like, a cone head. So I'm never gonna do that again.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

There's a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn't anticipate.

My confidence is just, that's just who I am.