Tessa Thompson Quotes

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I know what my identity is.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that's something I always had a hard time with.

In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

I think, a lot of my career and my life before I went to Sweden, I felt like I was trying to be someone else.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.