Janet Mock Quotes

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

I don't think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.

A lot of people get pigeonholed because it makes it easier to understand them - or assume you understand them. I think the way you break away from that is by constantly doing different jobs.

Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

Woman are complex creatures.

I'm really not that weird. I'm a combination of a lot of different things. Maybe it's just easier to make me look weird than another model who is specifically Caucasian.

Don't classify me, read me.

'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.

I did not want to be the gay artist, and I talked to my manager all the time, like, I don't want to lead with that. I didn't want people to look at me like that's all I am.

If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?

I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't put me into a box.

Being a lesbian is only about the 47th most interesting thing about me.

I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

The statement is that I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.

I am 32 flavors and then some.

I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.