Identity Quotes

I’m not a rapper.

I call myself a constitutional conservative.

I wasn’t always Rhodes, but I was always Dusty. I was never called Virgil – not by my family, not by my friends. Even my teachers at school didn’t call me Virgil.

If you’re white and you’re rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you’re poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you’re easier to identify.

I’m proud of my Native American heritage.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.