Identity

“How do you want to be remembered?”

“It's always been a crowning glory to be asked to coach your own national team.”

“My work can represent links in the evolving narrative of memory and identity.”

“For me, it’s like the same way you’re going to say Nas is an R&B singer because he’s from America or Whitney Houston was a rapper because rap is the most popping thing now.”

“I would like to be remembered as the girl next door that made it.”

“Be the truest form of yourself.”

“Whoever submits to our Prophet Muḥammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, and believes in him and affirms what he brought of sharia, externally and internally, in belief and in practice, he is then a Muslim, a believer.”

“My music is about attitude.”

“It’s me. I don’t know how else to put it!”

“Your value is not placed in whether you win or lose this race.”

“I want to wear me.”

“Nobody is gonna be able to intimidate me into not being Megan Thee Stallion.”

“I’d rather have people think I’m the super talented guy who cracks a joke than the hilarious guy who makes music.”

“I like to be myself; I don't want to perform myself.”

“Je peux n’avoir pas d’illusions pour mon propre compte, j’ai de la fierté pour mon état.”

“White are our deeds; black are our battles; our fields are green; and our swords are red.”

“If I had to start over tomorrow, I would still be me and I’d have all the skills that I bring to the table and I’d be pretty good.”

“I want my identity not to be rooted in gold medals or records, which will be broken eventually, but secure in Christ.”

“You just have to know who you are. Don’t be afraid of what other people are going to say. At the end of the day, you are the person that you have to answer to.”

“Má rodná mluvo, ty drahý skvoste, / jediný z velkého odkazu dědů.”