Identity Quotes

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method ...

My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and ...

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around...

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own i...

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becom...

...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be abou...

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Eart...

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the be...

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...

Alice’s razor-thin blond hair is what people in Santo Domingo call bueno, but I don’t understand how...

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of Ameri...

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I h...

When I turn my mind's eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and depend...

You cannot arrive at your life’s purpose by starting with a focus on yourself. You must begin with G...

She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't.

I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?I felt a headache coming on, but a ...

What we love we are.

I'm American. Why didn't I say I was African American? Because I'm in a foreign country? But can I r...

Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other...

But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like...

Everything is music for the born musician.

Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he ...

We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century", Oliver said. "Who isn't?

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

he wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, th...

I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you kno...

Years ago, homosexuals were given special status within the tribe. They had powerful medicine. I thi...

As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands ap...

For the first time I began to perceive that true sympathy cannot be switched on and off like an elec...

Remember that when you say ‘I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not lik...

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.", 2005]

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner v

We at Apple had forgotten who we were. One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroe...

If "Manners maketh man," as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignora...

No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on...

Why not? It's true. My best hope is to not disgrace myself and..." He hesitates.And what?" I say.I d...

Every individual, however original he may be, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of...

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you eve...

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity cou...

I had been thinking a lot about how the media has created this complex, fictionalized cartoon versio...

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and wi...

She waited with Billy Slick while Carrot went on the errand, and for something to say, she said, ‘Bi...

METAPHYSICAL LECTURE 1It has been said that after undergoing certain ordeals — whether ecstatic or a...

First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own perso...

There are so many voices heard today asserting that one should "have religion" or "believe," but all...

We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him an...

Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our...

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really b...

He hams his Brummie accent, I tell myself, the way so many ex-pats ham their lost identity. The mous...

Clancy comments that the subtleties of national character can impact the world stage by making espio...

I'm old enough to have lived in a country where, if you were willing to work hard, you could have a ...

Can't nobody make us do a thang once we git hard against it. And if anybody don't like that, you don...

Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the w...

I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity music...

When you make the effort to speak someone else’s language, even if it’s just basic phrases here and ...

Try being a white person who adopts the trappings of black culture while still living in the white c...

The body cannot be afraid of death. The movement that is created by society or culture is what does ...

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based ...

You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it wa...

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, for...

I open my eyes and for the first time stare openly at my own reflection. My heart rate picks up as I...

For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how man...

And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, ...

That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by c...

I am not one and simple, but complex and many.

Something now leaves me; something goes from me to meet that figure who is coming, and assures me th...

We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In th...

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-cons...

One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled striv...

Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted b...

You sea! I resign myself to you also-I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked fin...

O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected and no one h...

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we s...

A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It ...

We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and ...

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of id...

I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you re...

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and ...

Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world.

Quentin had grown up with that; the mere names were interchangeable and almost myriad. His childhood...

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 ...