Identity Quotes

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 ...

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 ...