Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

There are infinite combinations that people can experience, because no two people are alike, and no two people's identities should be expected to be alike. I mean, we see it in fashion: one size does not fit all. And I think it's, you know, completely ridiculous that we've expected people's identities to be one size fits all.

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

A Name Is A Label, And As Soon As There Is A Label, The Ideas Disappear And Out Comes Label-Worship And Label-Bashing, And Instead Of Living By A Theme Of Ideas, People Begin Dying For Labels... And The Last Thing The World Needs Is Another Religion.

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

I'm unique - a cosmopolitan mix.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

I look like everyone.

There are writers for whom names mean nothing; everybody could be called John and Elizabeth, and the writing would be just as good. A name, of course, is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.

I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

No one is any one thing.

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.

My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

Don't classify me, read me.

I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is the same.

I don't think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven't fit in every place, and so I'm kind of used to resistance.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.