Guru Nanak Quotes

I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.

I don't like labels.

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

I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped into anybody's preconceived notions or expectations.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I refuse to be stereotyped.

I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.

There is no one label that could be attached to me that would be thought adequate.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that a person's sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with their ability to be a good parent.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I'm like, 'Hey, something's wrong here.'

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

I've always wanted to be older, as I think it's all right to be a little bit odd when you're out of your 20s.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.