Self-Categorization Quotes

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.

Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

I don't like to classify my own tracks as a genre.

I'm not a list person.

They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

I wouldn't categorize myself as R&B or hip-hop. I don't really know how to categorize myself. I'm still working out where I fit with that stuff. I kind of think of myself as pop.

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.

I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I'm able to compete in?

We're a band and we just happen to be chicks, that's the way we've always thought of ourselves.

You pigeon hole yourself by the title you give yourself.

I'm more of an 'erotic clown,' it doesn't fall into the female category.

If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.

The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself.

I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought of as writers rather than ghettoised as crime writers, but I love being thought of firmly as a crime writer.

Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information about [ biological mother]. So you have to build a mythos around yourself. And so my mythos included me not being wanted or me being a wretched person, which is just great fertilizer for comedy.