Quotes About Identity

There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

I think for most guys, when we grow up we're trying to establish what being a man means to us and so I think it's pretty helpful and beneficial when there's a role model in the house.

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

No man knows my history.

Women do not dress specifically for men or against other women. They dress for their subconscious.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

Women aren't interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.

There's drama in everything. That's why I love movies. Like Welcome to the Dollhouse, I'm a 350-pound black man, and I could understand what it was like to be a little white girl.

The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.

The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.