Quotes About Identity

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside.

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

People would say to me, "Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney", and I'd say: "I wish I had his money!"

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

Man is a biped without feathers.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

I just don't get men. Mind you, I don't get me either.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

A man is more than his failings.

You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair.

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get...Is that because women are considered something less?