Quotes About Identity

Though we did have a few main characters in 'Avatar' who represented the non-benders of the world, most of the people we focused on were benders. However, benders are the minority in their world population.

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301.

The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

Many of Israel's Arabs, which see themselves as part of the Palestinian population, feel the pain of their brothers across the green line - a pain they feel the state of Israel is responsible for.

My height was not a deterrent, and it did not make me the person I am. It was like my long brown hair or my brown eyes - a physical characteristic that differentiated me from quite a percentage of the population.

I come from Israel, where most of the population is dark-haired, dark-skinned, dark-eyed.

We're oppressed, I think, you know there's only 5 per cent of the world's population who are ginger? So it's a tough time for us gingers.

As the Chinese girl, you don't fit in with anybody. It wasn't a large Chinese-American population, so I didn't grow up having a community of Asian friends. Even when there were Asian people, we sort of existed on our own.

As long as you're a citizen of our country. As long as you're an American citizen, you're part of this populist, economic nationalist movement.

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.

I'm a nationalist and populist.

I've always seen myself as a populist filmmaker.

I'm so proud of being a populist!

America is the one place where you can talk of 'this nation' and everyone knows exactly what you think. People put a flag on their porch, and they do have a desire to localize everything and celebrate things locally.

Ultimately, my goal is to inspire little brown girls that look like me, that are sitting on the porch wearing cornrows.

I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.

When I was a kid everyone used to call me pork 'n.

I am Port Arthur. I'm the president of Port Arthur.

There's a way that mirrors can be portals towards vanity, but there are also ways they can be portals towards self-reflection and understanding.

I kind of came about at the same time as Instagram, and it becomes, like, your portfolio. When people search who you are, they search Instagram, and I feel like people aren't even using Google anymore.

Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.

Something about Portland just really resonated with me.