Jason Moran Quotes

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality.

I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

I am who I am: I have my life experiences and my professional experiences.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

Tennis is great, but it doesn't necessarily define me.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

I'd like to be known as something more than a girl who goes to lunch with her girl friends and goes shopping.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself. and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

You are the artist and the art.

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

Being happy is not all about love! Love is not everything. Work, friends, and achieving things... your finite thing in life can't be getting married and having children. Like, creating a life for myself that's my own, and my own road? That was always the most important thing for me. Right now, I have a kid and stuff, and it's fantastic to be a mother, but it's not the final thing. You want to stay an individual. You need to stay an individual for your kid, as an example of what a human being should be! You want to stay true to yourself and not become a half a person. That is so, so important.