Quotes About Identity

Being an androgynous model is one thing, but a lot of what we're up against is the way we stand for certain values, such as our sexualities, or if people with our look are common enough to be part of the consumer market.

As actors, we are always playing other characters. It's so exhausting and time consuming to figure them out, so when you get the time to be yourself, you should take it.

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

London can be a platform to look at what living in contemporary Britain is all about.

Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?

I'd never been content in America.

There's no real test of how Asian you need to be to be able to own your Asianness, and it's always going to be an area of contention.

I'm not a game-show contestant, I'm a U.S. senator.

Sometimes you can't fight change, because you're a part of it, and I feel that in the context of these films that are happening now, there is a kind of change coming in terms of how history is represented on film, and the African, and the African-American and British African experience.

People act like art is a white thing - or not for people of colour - when, really, so much culture and art comes from people of colour. I want everyone to get into what I am doing. So sometimes I don't like to work just in an art context because it feels like a lot of people aren't going to see it. I like it to be a part of everyday life.

When you're looking back at your ancestral history or the cultural context of your identity, it's natural to search for that in the food.

My continent knows more about me than I do myself.

China is not a country, it's a continent. India is not a country, it's a continent.

My love, my passion, my everything is this continent of Africa. I have always celebrated African humanity.

I carry the continent of Africa on my shoulders proudly.

We moved around a lot when I was kid. I'd lived in three continents before I was 12.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

I don't measure myself in my contract in terms of what I'm making.

Often men dont even realise theyre sad. Boys are brought up to unconsciously feel they would be breaking their man contract if they were to cry too much.

I'm a walking contradiction on so many levels. I'm gay, black, and a Christian.

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.

Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.

There is a huge contrast between what others think who I am and my real self.