Snoop Dogg Quotes

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

I have no issues with my identity.

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment.

I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

'Rick' never really fit. I tried for 18 years to make it work, and no one wanted to call me Rick. It should always have been Ricky. That's what it always should have been, so I'm going back to it.

I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.

People who want to remember me as Cat Stevens - welcome. Those who want me as Yusuf, you're here.

I'm a young dude from Chicago who grew up with Kanye as my image of hip-hop. Finding your voice in a room where you have to challenge Kanye is scary - but it's also life-affirming.

I think, for me, it has been important to remain 'Petra from Fulnek.'

The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

Hip Hop is an extension of our very being, and so the study of Hip Hop is the study of self-expression leading to the study of one's true self.

Over the years, my relationship with God has changed my life for the better - it's grown me up, given me a sense of purpose, and grounded me in my identity.

I enjoy this confusion. Heloise? Christine? Chris? Maybe I will be called C at some point.

I think nowadays it's very important to re-connect with ourselves and our roots.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.

When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. —Bobby Goodspeed