Quotes About Identity

That's how vilification works. The victim ingests the views of his tormentor. If that's how I look, that's what I must be.

But the shouts and smell of smoke had a powerful effect on me. I don't say they excited me, but they gave a sort of universality to what I was feeling. I am who I am because I am not them - well, I was not alone in feeling that. We were all who we were because we were not them. So why did that translate into hate? I don't know, but when everyone's feeling the same thing it can appear to be reasonableness.

That was what was cruel about superficial change: it exposed what could never change.

In my experience people who can't stop making jokes about their identity aren't easy with it. The man of the world accepts who he is and the influences which have made him, and then gets on with living in the world.

If you learn how to work and grow, you will find that your life cannot be destroyed by the outside world. If you have to work eight hours a day, give three or one that belongs to you without money. This "Who Are You?" has to be reinforced.

Remember: blonde, brunette, and redhead are not personality types.

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself turned into an enormous symbol.

There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human.

I bet he's hightailed it into Canada. Somewhere into Canada." "Let me put it this way. Basically, there's Canada and there's the United States of America, and Orkney, since he was a boy, never had one spark of interest in going to the latter.

Yet I murdered the lighthouse keeper, Botho August, and that is an equal part of how I think about myself.

we all have a tendency to become so 'caught up' and identified with activity and external happenings that we neglect and lose touch with the 'I' that is there underneath it all. We are so engaged in what we are seeing, what we are feeling, or what we are doing, that we forget about the 'I' that is doing the seeing, having the feelings or performing the actions.

the Sun is the kind of hero we are, but the Ascendant is the quest on which we must embark. The Sun is why we are here; the Ascendant is how we get there.

A well-built brand is the culmination of intangibles that do not directly flow to the revenue or profitability of a company, but contribute to its texture. Forsaking them can take a subtle, collective toll.

55 percent—about 1.4 million veterans among this generation—said they feel disconnected from civilian life in America.

You will always be Mrs West, all over the world. That is important to me and to you.

I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.

I always resented the label of 'shock jock' that the press came up with for me. Because I never intentionally set out to shock anybody.

Look at you.

But it comes from someplace that knows who you are. I think that we can decide if we can be great or not.

Follow the grain in your own wood.

A man is a man, no more, no less. The awareness of this fact marks the supreme moment of human dignity.

The awareness of being a child of God tends to stabilize the ego and results in a new courage, fearlessness, and power. I have seen it happen again and again.

The third fact is that Jesus was a member of a minority group in the midst of a larger dominant and controlling group. In 63 B.C. Palestine fell into the hands of the Romans. After this date the gruesome details of loss of status were etched, line by line, in the sensitive soul of Israel, dramatized ever by an increasing desecration of the Holy Land.

Jesus and the Disinherited represents nothing less than those conversations Black parents must have with their children in a world that denies the created sacredness of their Black humanity.