Eric Lewis Quotes

My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my Emmitt from the rest of them. Even though on my birth certificate it has one T, I just added the extra T for me.

No one is any one thing.

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

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

I don't use labels a lot.

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

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?

I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled the bisexual defector. Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.

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

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.

So many people want to be seen not just as a mom or a wife, but they want to be seen wholly.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

I don't like labels.

I don't really consider myself a center.

I am not an image. I am a human being.

What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be.

We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.