Identity Quotes
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"
"Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess"
"I'm more than just an option, refuse to be forgotten"
"I need to make mistakes just to learn who I am"
"Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be."
"They ain't make me what I am, they just found me like this"
"We don't come from the same cloth, even if we cut from the same shorts"
"The truth is, I am rooted, but I flow."
"I'm not Mother Teresa but I'm not Charles Manson, either"
"I tell people that there's a new me every day. What I mean by that is that there are a lot of Eddie Murphys."
"You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here"
"You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are"
"You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you"
"The challenges we face teach us who we are, what we value, and who we want to become"
"I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way."
"Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside."
"I think a lot of people think they know me, but they don't"
"You become what you believe"
"People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things"
"There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all"