Roland Martin Quotes

When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.

Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.

I am who I am: I have my life experiences and my professional experiences.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got a long adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

I love basketball, but playing basketball doesn't fully define who I am. I was always a good student, too.

I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled the bisexual defector. Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.

Be sure you separate 'who you are' from 'what you have' and 'what you do'.

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei

Mine, ... Mine is what she is.

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.

It was never a marketing tool. People say that, but I dress this way for the same reasons I did when I first started doing it. It still comes from a serious place inside of me. I get up in the morning, and I think I just look better a certain way I do my makeup. I want to shine, I want to glitter. I'm not getting up thinking, "Oh, this'll get 'em." And I'm not doing it to make a statement. I'm just doing it to look like Dolly - the Dolly that I know and the Dolly that you know.