Identity Freedom Quotes

Some people's gender identity conforms to the sex they were assigned at birth, and some people's identity doesn't. That realization was certainly very freeing for me - and could be very freeing for other people.

In New York there's a lot of interstitial spaces; spaces in between spaces, where you're changing, and New York gives you the anonymity to be who you want to be.

Everybody has the right to be who they choose to be.

People should have their rights to be who they want to be and love who they want to love.

In my world, of course, it don't matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a gangster with baggy pants.

You don't have to label yourself, because it's not set in stone. It's so fluid, and there's so much pressure on kids to label themselves and say, 'This is what I am; this is what I like.'

We can be whoever we want. We can do whatever we want. We can be superheroes, because in many ways we are. We've had trans representation in television for a while, but it hasn't been the right representation.

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

I grew out of the habit of thinking or worrying about being seen as the typical Asian. I don't even know what that means anymore. I'm not really concerned with it.

A person's safety and quality of life should not be conditioned upon who they love or how they identify.

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it is my responsibility to represent only good black people... I mean, what are you talking about? That's not a character - that's a polemic.

Fortunately, unlike my teachers and classmates, my parents never forced gender roles or even a ended identity on me. I grew up on a farm, so all that mattered was working hard.

Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.'

It's so nice that today, young gay men have a choice about who they want to hang out with.

Embrace your colour, heritage, whatever you want, but don't let it confine you. Just live without labels.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'

How amazing is it that when a young gay or lesbian person has their first crush, no matter where they live in the country, they can imagine that all the way to marriage? When I first experienced a crush, in Texas, there was maybe a second of butterflies that were then dammed in by the fear of what that meant.

I love going to cities around the world and seeing the rainbow flag, knowing that it's a safe place where I can be myself.

I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being free to be whoever I want to be.