Self-Labeling Quotes

I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'

Growing up,I came up with this name: I'ma Cablinasian.

No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

I've never given myself a nickname.

I call myself an addicted organizer.

I'll tell you where I stand on the issues, and then I'll let the pundits decide how to label me.

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

Back home they call me the tie-dye shirt kid. Well, that and faggot.

I have no nickname, as there has never been any need for one.

You don't have to label yourself, because it's not set in stone. It's so fluid, and there's so much pressure on kids to label themselves and say, 'This is what I am; this is what I like.'

I am a feminist. I don't especially care for the term, but there it is.

I am more feminist than feminists.

I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.

A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.

Because you and I have the power to impute beauty on anything under the sun. Because you become the labels you give yourself. If you declare you're beautiful - not despite your imperfections, but because of them - then you are.

I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I'm not racist.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.