Quotes About Identity

I'm 6'8'', 280 pounds, and I feel like I move like I'm 5'10'' and 200.

'That's Not Me' video cost me 80 English pounds.

I've had the belt and it's great. But at the end of the day it's just 12 pounds of leather and gold.

No, I really was the biggest dork in high school. I know everyone says that, but I was 4-foot-11 and 75 pounds when I was 17.

I don't worry about the camera adding pounds, I am who I am.

When I was born, I was 10.5 pounds. My dad said I was like a little rock. It's stuck with me ever since.

When you see Paul Wall, I'm always going to be the same person. I might have on a new grill, I might have on some new jewelry. I might've put on some pounds, I might've lost some pounds. You never know.

You don't have to be 6-foot-7, you don't have to be 300 pounds. You can be 5-foot-2 and 135 pounds and still be one of the baddest dudes on the planet.

Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

I made the mistake of pouring my entire identity into one single dream and convincing myself that I was not capable of anything else or creating any other dream.

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

I think people assume that because I talk the way that I talk that I grew up with money, and then I've had to say, 'No, I grew up poor.' And then I was like, 'Why do I have to play this game where the only black experience that's authentic is the one where you grew up in poverty?' I mean, it's ridiculous.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.

I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

I think there's something really powerful about being yourself.

If you're going into finance, you might be dealing with a lot of sexism and a lot of alpha behavior. How are you going to deal with that? How are you going to feel powerful and comfortable with being who you are?

Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.

I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.

I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.

I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.

I very much consider myself British.

I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.