Cultural Label Quotes

Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.

My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

I'm no hillbilly singer.

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.

I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

I get irritated by the term 'African writer', because it doesn't mean anything to me.

My daughter is a redneck woman, she's a redneck girl.

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough of a declaration of intent.

All these people that want to make me out as part of Generation X had better watch out, or they're going to get X'd out themselves.

I'm one of not even a handful of British Asian popstars who are maninstream. Of course I was always tagged as British Asian singer Jay Sean as opposed to pop R'n'B singer Jay Sean.