My take on labels...

I've worn many labels. Conservative. Liberal. Christian. Non-Christian. Republican. Democrat. Even Activist.

Whatever label I've put on myself, I've discovered the label didn't fit. Sometimes, I was more than the label. Sometimes, I was less than the label. But, once I put the label on, it was out there and it's the filter through which others viewed me and it was hard to take off.

When I put a label on, I looked to others to determine how someone wearing that label should be. That drew me away from myself. There's no label that fits. There's more to me than a label. There's also less to me than a label.

Because of my personal experience, I try to be cautious about putting a label on another human being, or even myself.