Majora Carter Quotes

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

One doesn't want one's identity coerced.

I'll be a role model on my terms, but don't make a role model on your terms.

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.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

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

I don't have to fight if I don't want to.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I've lived my whole life exactly the way I've wanted to. Being gay, being white, being male, it doesn't matter to me. They're all things I'm born with.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

Personally, I don't like defining myself. I don't want to be put in one category in any kind of way.

People try to tell me like that, 'Oh, you shouldn't be proud,' or, 'You're not this,' or, 'You aren't that,' or whatever the hell. I'm just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I've gone through or what I haven't gone through?

You can ask me about my beliefs on things; that's cool. But I think to lump in and say, You follow this person, so then, wow, who are you?' Ask me who I am.

Let's be honest: the label of model-daughter-of-celebrity mother is... you know, I don't want to have that label. It's not who I am. It's not my values to go off someone else's name and to be pigeonholed as that. So in a way, that has really pushed me to be more independent.

Let each person have a chance to be who he or she wants to be. Only then can we be considered a truly liberated nation.

Oh, I don't like labels.

I want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'

It's very important, when everyone else seems to be pigeon-holing you, to try and pigeon-hole yourself.

Every woman in this world is allowed to define themselves how they want.

So I'd much rather get across the concept of freedom. It's what's important to Indian children. The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being. Otherwise you become what the colonizers have designed, and that is a lemming. Get in line, punch all the right keys, and die.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.