Quotes About Identity

Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

America is a white man's country.

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

We don't want to be the same as men, merely equal as human beings.

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.