Quotes About Identity

I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've always acted kind of like a man.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is.

Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.

The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

Always making sure I'm clean. And that's truly what it's about. I think it's a lot of misconceptions about what a man is, what a thug is, and all that kind of stuff.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

Electronic man has no physical body.

Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.

No man is a hero to his own valet.