Quotes about Identity

What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?

I'll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I'll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, 'You're nobody!' they're calling you 'God's living children.

A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a person. If you're not in that boat, which most people are not, personal branding makes no sense.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.

When I go back to Louisiana, I want to be the same person that my friends remember me as. It's so important to me.

I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

I want to remind women of color out there to stand your ground, and don't ever be afraid to speak up.

Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.

Even the greatest musicians, they only represent themselves. You represent who you are and what your experiences are and what you have in your heart, and it's the same for me. I represent who I am and what I've been through and what I'm bringing to the music.

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.