Quotes About Identity

Let us leave the labels to those who have little else wherewith to cover their nakedness.

But now everything's gone bad,and I only know one thing: I have six days. Six days to figure out who I really am.

Is it really so important to be different?

Sooner or later you must confront this demon of comparison.

Sara bit her lip, drawing blood, as she reflected on the many times she'd questioned Mama about her biological father. Who was he, where did he live, and how come Mama refused to talk about

I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big, toothy grin. It's the Sambo of all other offensive mascots. I have never seen a Native American smile that hard before, not even at a casino opening.

Why don't you marry another gay guy? That was fun...

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

When I was a child I said I don't want to be a woman. Why?! Because it's too painful to be a woman!" "Let us try and change what it means to be a woman.

Were there atheists in foxholes during World War II? Of course, as can be verified by my dogtags . . . A veteran of Omaha Beach in 1944, I insisted upon including 'None' instead of P, C, or J as my religious affiliation.

Products come and go, leaders come and go, trends come and go," says Yamashita, "but through all of that, you need to know the answer to the question What is true about us, at our core?

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

brief, I saw how "dad deprivation" and the purpose void had a compounding effect.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. —Chin-Ning Chu

People do grow up, unless stunted by some mass movement or other group sickness.

The Cat in the Hat exposes the in-betweenness of it all, the midcentury breakdown in meaning, out of which Tom Petty's generation emerged, a little starved for something to call their own. It's the rock and roll of children's literature.

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

At the end of the day, it isn't where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I'm going and never have been before.

How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.

All now was hurry and bustle. The meeting of acquaintances-- the greetings of friends-- the consultations of men of business. I alone was solitary and idle. I had no friend to meet, no cheering to receive. I stepped upon the land of my forefathers-- but felt that I was stranger in the land.

If people are seeing us more than they are seeing Christ, then something is out of balance.

We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.

homogenous: Men in their twenties