Quotes About Identity

As it happens, I look at that picture, and damn, he looks like family to me, too. But I know I would only be trolled on

Jews, therefore, as far as progressives are concerned, don't represent anything outside of themselves. No victory is claimed by championing their experience, and this leads to a subtle—and unconscious—exclusion.

it is the prerogative of those on the receiving end of any specific racism to define that racism.

Mr Mann … Sorry, is that really your name?" "Yes," said Mr Mann, frowning. He was sitting opposite Mr Carter's desk. Miss Malik was next to him. "As in … like … Mister Man?" "Brian Mann is my name, yes. As I've said.

being white is not about skin color, but security. It means you are protected because you are a member of the majority culture.

In his bedroom, Barry looked at himself in the mirror. He wasn't, it has to be said, entirely comfortable in the suit. Peevish had helped him put it on, which had felt a little weird as his mum and dad hadn't helped him dress for a long time. But then again he didn't normally wear suits. And certainly not shirts with cufflinks. And bow ties. Well, he had once worn a bow tie, to a party of

Jeremy, Teremy, Meremy, Heremy, Queremy, Smellemy, Sea Anemone and Dave.

Just as a particular racism can only really be defined by the victims of that racism, the deep truth of identity is only available to those who live that identity. Casting a non-minority actor to mimic that identity feels, to the progressive eye, like impersonation, and impersonation carries with it an element of mockery: or at least, it is reductive, lessening the complexity of that experience by channeling it through an actor who hasn't lived it.*

Derek. Or any other name that no boy had been called since 1953. Being called Barry was just one – although it was pretty near the top of the list – of the many things Barry blamed his parents (Susan and Geoff: go figure…) for.

Well, according to the law of Schrödinger's Whites, a brilliant conceit that I am not responsible for, in which Jews are white or non-white depending on the politics of the observer, in this context Krug's Jewishness enhances the story.

I said earlier that being white was not just about skin color, but about security. That's what white privilege represents. White really means: safe.

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive.

Most of us spend most of our time in other peoples' worlds — working at predetermined jobs, relaxing to pre-packaged entertainment — and no matter how benign this ready-made world may be, there will always be times when something is missing or doesn't quite ring true.

Only those who commit to following their own artistic path can look back and see this issue in clear perspective: the real question about acceptance is not whether your work will be viewed as art, but whether it will be viewed as your art. APPROVAL

Consider that if artist equals self, then when (inevitably) you make flawed art, you are a flawed person, and when (worse yet) you make no art, you are no person at all!

Birth of a Nation

But a world in which all intercultural communication was carried out in a single idiom would not diminish the variety of human tongues. It would just make native speakers of the international medium less sophisticated users of language than all others, since they alone would have only one language to think with.

Translation is the opposite of empire

From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews.

What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness. In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, later on, you wonder what in the world the truth is, but you do know what a lie is.