Quotes About Identity

Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he [Jimmy Carter] puts nostalgia in its place.

They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.

Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact.

It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

What you care about is what makes who you are! If you care about peace, this makes you a man!

Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!

If a man's shadow is brighter than himself, than that man becomes the shadow itself!

If God is the master of the universe, then what are we? The slaves of the universe? If so, let each man become proud Spartacus!

In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man's hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness!

The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible.

Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?

On the track, you're Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you're in the dressing rooms, you are nothing more than a dirty Negro.

I am the wilderness lost in man.