Identity Affirmation Quotes

Me just existing and being myself is making change and making things easier for other young queer kids. I want to be me and express that and break new ground along the way.

Of course {I'm bisexual}. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!

I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I'm gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it's gay. And I love my gay fans, and they're all going to be coming to our show. And it's going to remain gay.

None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.

I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.

I'm an artist who happens to be gay.

I am hard-core middle class.

'Latina' has become part of the Becky G family, and I feel very proud to say that.

Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.

I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman.

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

When you're biracial, people sort of make you gray - you're not black, you're not white, you're sort of gray; you're 'other.' And I'm fortunate to have parents that were strong enough to say, 'You're not 'other.' You're special.'

I am not gay.

I may be born in the U.K., but nobody takes away from the fact that I'm an Arab, and I'm proud to be Arab.

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

This is how God made me, and this is what my momma gave me. I am proud of this.

The people who matter will recognize who you are.

I've gotten a lot of young gay kids come up to me and talk to me about how the little things I've said in the press has helped them come out to their parents, or just be open with who they are, and feeling invigorated by that. So that honestly means a lot to me to hear that the things that I say in the press, they do hear, and they see, and it helps them at least to start the conversation.

I call myself a nerd all the time.

I'm still feminine, I'm still a woman, and above all, I'm still human.

I'm most proud of my work in the LGBTQ space. Feels like, above all else, that's something I want to do for the rest of my life.

I am a biological female. I have two children. I've been married for 16 years. I've never been a man.

I didn't always see someone that I could relate to, that would tell me that being Black and gay is okay.

The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.