Identity Choice Quotes

You can't just go gay, its not like buying a ladder.

Sexual orientation and gender identity are not a choice, and anyone who knows me and my work over the years knows that I am a firm believer and supporter in the rights of LGBT Americans.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.

I do not believe being gay or lesbian is a choice.

I think that we're starting to allow ourselves to imagine that gender doesn't have to be binary, sexuality doesn't have to be binary, and you are allowed to choose who you love, how you behave, and how you dress.

It's not my place to tell anyone what kind of feminist she should be.

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.

I'd rather be Welsh than English, that's for sure.

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?

Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.

There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

I never used my surname. My full name is Atishi Marlena Singh.

Being gay isn't something you choose, but you do face choices about whether and how to discuss it.

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.

It used to be so important to choose what you were. Gay or straight. Male or female. I think the new generation is more fluid.

Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us.