Identity Quotes

"We are all people... don't label me as an LGBT rapper or a female rapper... I don't like to be labeled."

"I think the Aussieness got beaten out of me back in the States."

"There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black."

"I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history."

"No one could put my personality in a box. I didn't necessarily fit in."

"You can't really run from your roots."

"If it was the '70s, I'd be a punk artist. I was just born into hip-hop."

"I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music."

"I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings."

"I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy."

"I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about."

"I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world."

"There's nothing harder than defining oneself."

"One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister."

"I represent the West Coast culture."

"I used to be on some nerd-type stuff."

"I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland."

"I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American."

"This is my homeland no one can kick me out."

"I have learned to create from a hybridized point of view. It's an asset - something rather liberating."

"You can't tag me as a regional actress."

"My skin - very Mexican, very Oaxaquenan, and very human, from the color of my land and the diversity of its colors."

"My name means 'sunrise of life.'"

"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."

"In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army."