Identity Rejection Quotes

Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

I don't want anyone to think of me as a pro-Trump guy. I'm going to specifically reject any kind of branding about pro-Trump or whatever.

The league wants certain things. They want certain guys. I'm just not one of them. But I can't help the way I am.

Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

When I first left Florida for Boston, I was so eager to shed my Floridian identity, perhaps some of my earlier surreal gestures felt hollow and unconvincing because they were not rising from the particular brand of the uncanny I knew best.

I'm tired of labels. This is my label right here: El Cucuy.

Never have I once identified myself as white.

My name is Constance Marie, and I am anti-princess.

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

I'm not a Beverly Hills dude.

I don't like that word: feminist.

I am not renouncing my blackness and going on about my day. I am rejecting the legitimacy of the entire racial construct in which blackness functions as one orienting pole.

The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an item girl.

But I don't want to be a pirate!

I thought about being gay, but it didn't fit.

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

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

I would never and did not ever characterize myself as a hippie.

I think if you don't like being in your skin, it doesn't matter how many times people say you're beautiful, how many jobs you get, or whatever it is - I just didn't want to be Adwoa.

Religion was my entire life. And then, when I came out, religion completely turned their back on me. And I've never really gotten over that.

I hate the word 'lesbian.'

Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.