Identity Quotes

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...

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is sa...

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "S...

Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your aw...

The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You pl...

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he sai...

She said to herself: 'Is not the gown the natural raiment of extremity? What nation, what religion, ...

What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakab...

Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the rig...

Ella finds this story inside herself: A woman, loved by a man who criticizes her throughout their lo...

Anyway, it's a good thing we're human. We design business spreadsheets, paint programs, and word pro...

At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do...

People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - fla...

The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spir...

When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion...

I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “probl...

In many cases you are not buying a product but an “identity enhancer.” Designer labels are primarily...

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the sp...

What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.

The way one is envisaged by other people - what easier way is there of envisaging oneself? There is ...

You know, you seem like a completely different person, now that you're with this new boyfriend. You ...

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, w...

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction...

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why shou...

And so we see the paradox that evolution has handed us. If man is the only animal whose consciousnes...

...the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, b...

What is this 'I'? If you analyse it closely you will, I think, find that it is just a little bit mor...

...modern Western culture has placed what it calls sexuality in a more and more distinctively privil...

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existe...