Quotes About Identity

If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

I wanted to participate in the political responsibilities of an American citizen. I wanted to vote. I wanted to be a full member of the American community. I made America my home country. It's my identity in many ways.

Having a multi-cultural background has granted me access into different ideologies, cultures, and ways of living. It has shaped who I am and how I participate in the world.

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

I hate myself and my face in particular.

In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way they want Scotland to look like and to behave like.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

No person is just one particular emotion.

I believe that everyone has to construct a mental model of what they are and where they came from and why they are as they are, and the word soul in each person is the name for that particular mish-mash of those fully formed ideas of one's nature.

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

I don't think I am particularly funny. In fact, I know I'm not.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

In my big group of girlfriends at home, I am definitely not the best looking. I did not grow up feeling like I was particularly attractive.

Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

I probably seem like not a particularly nice person, not a girl's girl.

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

My being Muslim is only one part of my identity. But particularly in India and the world over, a concerted effort is being made to diminish all other aspects of identity and only take your religious identity as who you are.

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.