Read quote“I started to do music from a black beat, so that blacks can feel proud being black.”
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About Identity
The self, belonging, and personal identity
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Words on Identity
Read quote“I came to college a boy and left a man.”
Read quote“When I am not on stage, I am a very serious person.”
Read quote“The way you dress is how you express yourself.”
Read quote“I go to bed as Oliver Samuels and wake up as Oliver Samuels.”
Read quote“Yo no soy ninguna autoridad de nada; ni siquiera me creo Lola La Grande, que me lo puso mi amiga Chabuca Granda; sólo quiero seguir proyectando mi música como hasta ahora lo hago...”
Read quote“Somewhere in the middle is the vital language we Africans use: it is a synthesis of two literary experiences.”
Read quote“זו הארץ המובטחת. אני לא עוזב, אני יהודי.”
Read quote“Brooklyn is in my head and in my heart.”
Read quote“Yeah, I'm a maverick. Always have been.”
Read quote“Being Canadian has been a psychological barrier.”
Read quote“I want to be called a writer before anything else, before an actor, before a comedian.”
Read quote“My name is Gauhar Jan!”
Read quote“Telling stories in film “is what I decided to do in life, to keep alive, and to tell people who I am.””
Read quote“I live in the world. I don’t consider myself French, Spanish, or American, you know? That doesn’t interest me.”
Read quote“I was born to be an artist, painting from as far as I could remember.”
Read quote“To me, sword is a kind of locus on which thoughts are projected. It's a projection of a person's spirit.”
Read quote“It’s always a disguise of a sort and it’s always a revelation of a sort.”
Read quote“My music is essentially a trajectory of my life and my personal and professional growth.”
Read quote“I am who I am because somebody loved me, somebody cared for me, and somebody attended to me.”