Identity Quotes

Sleep is where we touch what is better left unexamined. There, the whole of life is bundled up, dwin...

A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers,...

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my ...

I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all...

All tastes are expressions of belief.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

I AM NOT A WAITER. I HAVE BEEN A STUDENT, A SCIENTIST, A SOLDIER, MY WIFE IS CALLED ALSANA, WE LIVE ...

[H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vo...

Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a cultu...

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certai...

The StrangerLooking as I’ve looked before, straight down the heartof the street to the riverwalking ...

That, of course, depends entirely on who you mean by 'they'. It's a very vague term. Who is or are '...

I think… that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of...

Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can...

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our...

We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for ...

We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind ...

This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise ...

This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise ...

This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that itexists. This world I can touch, and I likewise j...

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of opt...

Travel if you wish, taste strange dishes, gather experience in dangerous activities, but see that yo...

Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first kno...

While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...

Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or...

Today it is hardly possible for any group to remain so isolated from others who have different value...

While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.

Your purpose is your identity focus your energy on great purposes.

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which...

I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where e...

She already loved me too much to see me as I was.

I’ve been thinking about it, since you said it,” said Seivarden. No, said Mercy of Kalr. “And I’ve c...

The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the wall...

Rosie had to keep her room neat enough so James would not freak out, but not so neat that they could...

I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found,...

New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.

She started to speak, but then stopped. Anything she could think of to say seemed a mistake. In fact...

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something ha...

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as t...

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's...

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone els...

Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse loc...

Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subv...

The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that ...

Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in o...

We keep coming back to the question of representation because identity is always about representatio...

black identities are diverse and complex…

Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, fi...

Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads ...

Once upon a time black male “cool” was defined by the ways in which black men confronted hardships o...

Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were “keeping it re...

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan yo...

It is not possible to preserve one's identity by adjusting for any length of time to a frame of refe...

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like af...

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at ...

The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist befor...

The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago.That gap is the ma...

While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true s...

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are ...

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illu...

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovednes...

What we know matters but who we are matters more.

Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging,...

How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met...

I know I'm good but I'm also a poser. That's artistic balance! In the second half of the century, "a...

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her a...

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighb...

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shad...

I may not believe in sin,” he said, “but I do feel guilt. We Shadowhunters live by a code, and that ...

You know what I am." The words breathed out in an auguished whisper. "I'm part demon, Clary. Part de...

Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying ...

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identi...

Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, c...

I am me and I have been Juliette and both of us have dreamed this dream repeatedly. And what makes t...

To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments an...

It's my diary", she'd explained. "Every mark I've had drawn on my skin connects me to where and who ...

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most peopl...

You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you wo...

Chris Hedges said that Michael Jackson's memorial service was a variety show with a coffin, that MJ ...

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ...

You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive....

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a...

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I ...

Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not w...

I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.

My world today is raw, it is a world of great vital difficulty. Because, more than a star, today I w...

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing – to present my unhappy rea...

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate co...

At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand...

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to ...

You get to decide what to worship.

Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly...