Cyrille Aimee Quotes

My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

My continent knows more about me than I do myself.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

I loved the Brazilian music I played. But this is finally me. For the first time I think it's really me.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to put that out there so blatantly, so that before you listen to me you know that I'm Asian. But I thought it was sort of cool to embrace the Korean half of me, which I love.

I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry into the flows of existence can be seen as a beginning, a commencement of a brand new way of seeing oneself in the world. This is the case for everyone.

I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I'm just a person.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.