Quotes About Identity

The first time I passed as a woman in public was on leave in the U.S. from my deployment to Iraq in February 2010.

The lifestyle that I grew up in, it was passed on to me. I didn't know there was another world.

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it.

Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.

The primitive man has one quality, elaborated and maintained by the very necessities of his hard struggle for life – he identifies his own existence with that of his tribe; and without that quality mankind never would have attained the level as it has attained now.

It [the self] is rather a process, continuously created and recreated in each social situation that one enters, held together by the slender thread of memory.

There are some people who do not need fifteen seconds on the Evening News to validate their existence.

The drop of rain knows who and what it is as long as it remains a drop. When it falls back into the sea, its origin, it can no longer know.

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

Today's so-called cloud isn't really a cloud at all. It's a bunch of corporate dirigibles painted to look like clouds. You can tell they're fake because they all have logos on them. The real cloud wouldn't have a logo. Once

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

The goyim are a curious people," Malpesh once said to me, before he had discovered who and what I was. "Not curious that they want to know things," he clarified, "curious that they don't.

Davey had blue eyes and yellow hair.

I was a second class citizen before the zombies and I'm a second class citizen now.

Your Personal Brand is the mental picture your prospects get when they think about you.

branding is about emotion.

Branding always works. The thing is, it can work for you or against you.

Your Personal Brand is your weapon in the visibility battle.

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

and subordinate groups are defined along ethnic and/or racial lines, and where the relationship is established and maintained to serve the interests

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

Nije stvar samo u tome što taj momak u krvi ima sivog mora, pomislila je; ima ga sav jedan ledeni, bezli?an ocean, i on mora prona?i na?in da ga iz sebe ispusti.