Quotes About Identity

I love being Jewish, but I think that our generation is the first generation that crossed that line between being a cultural versus a practicing Jew.

I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly.

As a woman, this is one of these areas where you have to walk a fine line: the classic, 'Are you soft and squishy, and you hug everybody, and you're a cheerleader?' versus, 'Are you the hard-nosed you-know-what female dog?'

We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

The capacity for humans to come up with ever-increasingly granular in-group versus out-group demarcations is truly breathtaking.

The only thing I wish was happening more was that there were more Indian characters. Like the movies with leads that are Indian and they talk about Indian culture versus Americanized Indians.

What does it mean when I wear something that makes me look like a Disney Princess? Versus something that's like 'ooh, maybe Kiki Layne can be a sex symbol.' Because these are things that, sometimes dark skin actors with natural hair, we don't get put into those types of conversations.

I can know what Brian Cage is doing before he's doing it because he's doing me. I've been facing the man in the mirror my entire life. That's been my hardest battle is the one where it's me versus me.

Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.

The hair is part of my image, part of my persona. And the hair is no accident: I have to gel it vertical every single morning.

From my vertical, people, especially men, don't realize what clothes can do for their self-esteem, the way they see themselves, their confidence.

For a while, my favorite movie was 'Vertigo.' Everything in that movie was captivating to me.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him.

We have our own culture, our own community. A lot of people don't realize that. They just assume that deaf people are very unfortunate, very disabled, but no.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

Very few of us are what we seem.