Chinua Achebe Quotes

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it.

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black."

If you label it this, then it can't be that.

Race designation is a political designation.

People wanted to put me in one category, I think because it was easier for them.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

I don't mind categories, but it's so hard to find one that fits.

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

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

I don't like being put into a category.

They always like to put labels on me.

I think that it is mad that everything always has to have a label - whether it be the clothes by designers, or whether you are in a relationship or not. Everybody always wants to have that label when it is not always necessary.

Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.

I hate being categorized.

It's a blessing and a curse at the same time, the idea of genre.

Why does everyone need to have a label?

Genres are just names.

It doesn't bother me when I'm labeled, but it's so... limiting. It's so boxy.

When you come into this league, everyone tries to put you in categories - 'this is what he is' or 'this is what he can do.'

I don't want to be put in a category.

If someone labels you, it is very hard to shake it off.

I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform.