Quotes About Identity

As long as I look good, I'm very happy - and as long as I look consistently me.

It's very difficult to overtly do it. But I try to live my life consistently as a man and as a father.

I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

In America, we are engaged in constant battle with food.

All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

Self-doubt is a constant companion for a chubby, gay, black boy born in the South.

Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.

I am very proud of who I am and what I've been able to do and accomplish for my constituents.

It so happens, in Malaysia, the people who are in a way not doing as well constitute the majority of the people - the Bumiputeras.

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.

We had always been a real band; Heart was never a construct.

I wish Americans understood that race is a social construct, even if we don't want it to be.

I think that, in America, even though race is a social construct, I mean, we say this in theory, but I think a lot of people don't believe that it really is. And so it's still a very racialized society.

My job is to be the constructive awakener of the black masses of the world so them know themself and others know what black people suppose to be and where.

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.

When I had a baby, I was consumed with my body.

A lot of my day is consumed with how I look.

I think of myself as just another consumer.

We are trying to speak to the consumer by their lifestyle.