Quotes About Identity

As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

But I don't think anybody with any self-respect would admit to being Goth

I may drink too much and play too loud, hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd. That don't mean I don't respect my mama or Uncle Sam.

When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

Men are born equal but they are also born different.

While I have the utmost respect for people who practice the Christian faith, the fact is, as everyone knows, I am as Jewish as a matzo ball or kosher salami.

How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it.

At home we ate fish every Friday, as Catholics were then supposed to do. Being Jewish, I compromised. I wore a hat when I ate fish, out of respect for my own religion and the fish's family.

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

God specifically created us to be like Him. This is impossible to wrap our minds around, but God created us like Him in some respect and then set us in the midst of this world to represent Him!

The way to respect all the people I love is to eat the music, have it in my blood and bones, and try to explore it in as much different ways as possible to create my own identity.

Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.