Quotes About Identity

Native peoples imbibed all of the vices of U.S. citizens, they claimed, while slaves absorbed their virtues.

I auditioned just for fun. I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?

If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you'll never become that person.

Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.

The perfect tattoo... the one I believe we are all struggling toward... is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra.

Here is what I know about homosexuality: That it is okay. That it is a sin if done wrong. That it is a better sin if done right

I can't go back," said Towser. "Nor I," said Fowler. "They would turn me back into a dog," said Towser. "And me," said Fowler, "back into a man.

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of lives but end in the end having lived only one.

In order to be yourself you have to deconstruct the puzzle of who you were to become who you were meant to be.

The past is like a tattoo. Your life changes, but the tattoo is still there to remind you who you were and you forget who you are.

Artists often feel sad without knowing why.

Most men are a confusion of half-truths and vanity, of something lost and never completed.

The only thing the English have left is their past.

Every jihadi bride who wants to come home is proof that Islamic State is a failure.

A little girl asked her grandmother why she always ask her name. The grandmother said, It is not senility. I only want to make sure you remember me when you don't see me anymore...

A lost person can never find the way back home if the person doesn't have one.

Being famous is not everything. Being yourself is more than just anything.

Breeding is what individuality projects.

Religion is what you do and what you are.

An elementary pupil was asked by the teacher what to give her mother on Mothers' Day. She said, My name... because my mother never saw or knew me after giving birth to me.