Identity

“My ambition was not to be a great artist, but I have always wanted to be a man like any other man.”

“We Chinese should build and own a Chinese-based media network. We should express our voice through our own stance and values.”

“Carnival is a time when you could become who you want to be. It’s very important, not only to Trinidadians, but to the world.”

“L’homme profond, c’est le vrai moi.”

“In Paris…no one regards me curiously. I am simply “M. Tanner, an American artist.””

“Culture is our identity. Without identity, we cannot truly live.”

“I am proud to be a Yoruba woman and I will continue to promote my culture.”

“A nation is not only a matter of race or the color of skin.”

“I'm so happy to have been born in South Korea. I've received so much love in the past half decade. I have no way to repay it.”

“We cannot dispossess ourselves of our literary heritage. We speak the English tongue and write in the English language.”

“على كل فنان ألا يتخبط بالبحث عن ذاته، وعن أسلوبه.”

“But that doesn’t make me a grime artist; I’m just a rapper.”

“Let African Christians be Christian Africans.”

“The “I” does not refer to the subject of the speaker in the same way as the name Bina Gupta does. The “I” is not a name.”

“I am an eternal foreigner.”

“My name is Gauhar Jaan!”

“We are strangers in this land [of India].”

“What people say about you is none of your business. What you say about you is entirely your business.”