Quotes About Identity

You're not a man, you're a mushroom!

A slave is but half a man.

You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.

And just as you can find hip-hop lyrics beating up on all these groups, including young Black men themselves, the primary producers of the music, you can also find lyrics celebrating them.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

Focus group research has created a composite No-Man who resembles no-one anyone has ever met.

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

Jewish men don't know anything.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I,who were both Jewish, were going over toidentify the remains of a man who was soanti-Semitic.

The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.