Identity Marker Quotes

Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.

A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.

Racial discourses and theories are socially constructed ... but repudiating race theory does not make it disappear in politics. Race matters ... because it functions as a marker and an anchor to establish and repudiate identity, status and position ... Races exist because racism exists.

I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.

I just wear the uniform of the city I'm from.

I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.

Any man can be 62, but it takes a bus to be 62A.

I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe if you will. And flags are about proclaiming power, so it's very appropriate.

Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.

Women of African descent, since the beginning of time, have altered their hair, decorated it and used it to designate status.

Clothes are incredibly symbolic.

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.

...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was like and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside of herself.

I have something called 'Siwanators,' and if you're a Siwanator, you're strong. You're powerful. You stand up to the bullies. If you're a Siwanator, you're nice. And the way you can tell if someone is a Siwanator is if they have a JoJo bow in.

We don't use the trademark to market anything. It's our identity.

There's something about having a badge that just makes you feel so official.

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

Show me how you dance and I will know where you are from.

Don't ask me to cut my ponytail.

For many, hair is just hair. It's something you grow, shape, adapt, adorn, and cut. But my hair has always been so much more than what's on my head. It's a marker of how free I felt in my body, how comfortable I was with myself, and how much agency I had to control my body and express myself with it.

A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.

People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.

I had people who said I was a brilliant producer but I wouldn't get on the news because I was too northern. But there was no way I was changing my accent - it is the key to my identity.

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.