Quotes About Identity

I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.

I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You're not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You're supposed to be powdering yourself.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

With the rise of identity politics, the expression of naked prejudice against members of a supposedly privileged group has become mainstream.

I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.

When childhood ended, I had to suppress feminine characteristics and try and be a boy. I didn't want to grow up at all because it meant becoming someone else.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.

I think black women feel an obligatory pressure to be stronger than everybody else, not necessarily to suppress the pain.

In aversive racism, the concept of racism is abhorrent to that person. But they're filled with racist conditioning and bias, as we all are. Because that conflicts with their identity as good people, they suppress it and are even more in denial about it. They are even more likely to erupt in defensiveness if it gets called out.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

I was suppressed for many years. From the outside, you'd think I had a very normal life.

I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put it in a box that I never opened.

I'm a very creative person, but that side of me was suppressed because I was academic. I was depressed at school, and I didn't know why.

I feel I like portraying women-centric roles, since I can express pent-up frustrations and suppressed feelings lying deep inside a female soul.

All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so I went back to some of the music I grew up with, like music from South Africa and the '80s stuff. I stopped suppressing it, and I stopped trying to be cool.

As a black man, so often you grow up suppressing your emotions and sensitivity.

Our democratic system, national identity, and international space must be respected. Any forms of suppression will harm the stability of cross-strait relations.

White supremacy is not confined to strange men in the Deep South who put on white cloaks, it is not confined to strange gatherings of the English Defence League.