Quotes About Identity

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.

Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself

You might be a redneck if the tobacco chewers in your family aren't just men.

You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

When I was young, I loved black men.

Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

It's not that I don't like penises. I just don't like them on men.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

I don't like men. They're saying they're going to bash my head in.

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.

Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.