You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled.

“Faeces by any other name would smell as gross”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“That statues are motionless would be true only if the earth were the universe.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Looking at what 'foreplay' is, 'sexual intercourse' is a game.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“One demonstration is equivalent to one hundred explanations.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Two of the biggest problems with language is that you can say what you do not mean to say, and that you can say…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.”

— Alfred Korzybski

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with…

— Jon Ronson