Quotes About Identity

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

I'm black so I've been getting eyed by cops my whole life.

I'm the black sheep in a family of cops. I understand how difficult the job is.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

My name was Lightning Kid; it was pretty much a copy off of Dynamite Kid.

You have to try and make the role your own and not copy anyone else.

I see a lot of people try to come out and copy me, duplicate me, and give it the old college try, but at the end of the day, there's only one Chael Sonnen.

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.

Beauty can grow as a whole, since you shouldn't copy other people.

I don't want to be a copy of anyone else.

I've realized now that I just want to be myself. I don't necessarily want to wear an exact copy of something on the runway, because that's not really what style is to me.

I'm forced away from what I would call my music. I can't do another thing like 'Maxinquaye.' But if people didn't go out and copy it, I might have done another three or four 'Maxinquayes.' Which is terrible.

Copying is a form of self-validation.

The truth of the matter is being gay is the way I was born. I believe this to the core of my being.

I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value? What was I about? And I had to love it and take pleasure in it.

I realized that... at the core of who we are, we're these perfect beings - and we're not taught that.

I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

The core of me is country. It's what I love. It's what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I'm still singing it 'countrily.'

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

When I write Superboy and other DC characters, it's about boiling them down to core concepts.

For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.

I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are.

My nan and granddad are from Cork.