Quotes About Identity

There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

When I look in the mirror, I see a God-fearing man who would risk it all for family and his beliefs.

Quaint, outlandish heathen gods Black men fashion out of rods

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

America is not a white man's republic.

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

Never mind what my name is," the man said. "No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.

Im like a man whos been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

Are all men in disguise except those crying?

No man had ever knocked little Richard down. But of course Ammm was not a man.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

So yo then man what's your story?

Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

Often I think boys don't become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man's mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

Oh, no, it can't be teardrops 'Cause a man ain't supposed to cry.

There is also a beast, a beast of strange dimensions. He has the head of a horse and the body of a man who needs a lot of attention. He represents me in college: I was a dork-ataur.

I thought, I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.