Quotes About Identity

I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

I was a houseman, the lowest. I was just above - in the hierarchy of jobs, I was just above the Puerto Rican dishwashers - just above, so I felt superior to them.

I see how the Midwest distrusts the East Coast. The Midwest sees itself as morally superior. The Coast sees itself as intellectually superior. And the two are actually the same thing.

Racism is never personal - it's about someone saying the group I am part of is superior to the group you are part of.

We were taught in school that there was a fundamental difference between black people and white people - that we were superior.

As white people in this society, we are socialized from the time that we're born to see ourselves as superior, to see white people and things associated white people as superior. At the same time, I'm encouraged to never admit to that. I'm taught that racism is very bad and immoral.

The first relative I came out to was my aunt Teri, a superior court judge in San Francisco. Her reaction surprised me. 'I've known you were gay for years,' she said. From that moment on I was comfortable in my own skin.

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

Everybody from the Bay has a superiority complex because we're dope.

'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.

My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.

Gay people are all like Superman. You have to be quite strong to be gay - or to be different in any way. You build special muscles.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather be a farmer? Maybe. Would he much rather be hanging out with his dad and his mom and his dog? Probably.

That's definitely a part of who Superman is and definitely who Clark on the farm is. It translates to how calm he is. I feel like I'm pretty calm most of the time and relaxed, which gives presence to the character.

By no means am I as moral as Clark Kent, by no means at all. I made a lot of mistakes and done a lot of things that are in no way, shape, or form Superman- or Clark Kent-esque. But generally, I live my life that way and try to.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.

Basically, I come from other planet. Like Superman, from Krypton. I don't show my power because I want to play basketball.

I do proclaim myself king of bachata because I have to represent my genre. I have to always come out and put on the Superman cape. I'm pretty much representing my culture. I'm not going to change that. But I definitely don't want there to be a misconception where people are like, 'The only thing he likes to do is bachata.'

I got to have that S on my chest. Superman.

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.