Quotes About Identity

Such antics do not amount to a man.

Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

Are you woman enough to be my man?

What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.

A homosexual is the only man who ever meets a man he would like to marry if he were a woman.

I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

I have to admit, if Oprah were a man, I would marry her.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'