As individuals express their life, so they are.

I think I’m somewhat defined by my race for sure, and I’m good with that and I actually want that to be a part. I think that should be fodder for our work — we should use all aspects of ourselves. I’m always trying to find a place where that’s actually an impact on what I’m doing as opposed to going, “Well, we’re all just people and we’re the same.”

I came here to be who I am, to do the work the way I know how to do, and that's the way I've been doing it.

I shall be what I have been, shall live as I have lived.

I elect to be…myself.

I believe in expressing myself; always stating my point, and sticking to what I believe in. People may read different meanings to it, but at the end of the day, I can only be myself; I can’t try to be someone else, or back-up what I don’t believe in. I wasn’t brought up like that. It has brought me here so far, and I love me.

I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.

"I know that in the United States people are what they choose to be," he said.

Like my afro, I rise. Proudly self, proudly African — that is all I can be.

Translation: I am me. No more, no less than Yuzuru Hanyu. I want to be myself and do what I can do to the full at the Olympics as well.

A man is what he wills himself to be.

Man is what he wills himself to be.

Someone might object, "But you do not express yourself like Cicero". What of it? I am not Cicero. But I think I express my own self.

The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.