Quotes About Identity

I don't think the people run to the polls and vote simply on the basis of identity. Yes, it is a factor, of course we all know that. It's also ethnicity, gender, and gender identity. People do take those factors into account.

I'm just happy with what I am, and I happen to be a polo player.

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

I go by the name of Polo G and I'm from the near North Side of Chicago, the 1300 block of Hudson Avenue.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

Only I can play Modi. I say that even at the cost of sounding pompous because I really love him.

I always had long legs. When I was young, I used to think, 'Why do I look like a little pony?'

I'm not really into 'My Little Pony.' I'm not a 'Brony,' just to clear that up.

Don't ask me to cut my ponytail.

I finally chopped off my ponytail at the end of middle school, and it was the best decision I made.

A miniature poodle is not not a dog just because it's miniature.

I would say, if you come out, they can't take away how you play football. That was the thing for me: once I did come out, it's not going to affect my diving. I can still perform, no matter what anybody else thinks of me. I'm judged for what I do in the diving pool.

Seriously, I do 20 lengths a day. I get a few funny looks in the pool from people who think, 'Isn't that that Happy Mondays geezer? What's he doing here?'

My identity is in Christ, and I really hope that I show that with just my character, the way that I do things on the pool deck.

I hated going to the mall, I hated shopping, I hated pool parties. It was just the little things that made me realize, like, maybe I am a little different than everyone.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.