Quotes About Identity

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

What a man knows isn't important. It's what he is that counts

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.

A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

In black comedic culture, there's always been a thing about "Man, I ain't gotta wear a dress to be funny!" But I've done it.

Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.

I was a straight man long before I knew what it was called. I was just the boring one.

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

I got this black chick, she don't know how to act Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap She like, "Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

Man's existence precedes his essence

Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

You find out what type of man you are.

I can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man.

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.