Quotes About Identity

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is.

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

They call me the confuser. Is he a man... is he a woman? Ooh, I'm not sure if I mind.

A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode. [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.