Quotes About Identity

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.

I am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious.

Well, I worked with Brock a lot when he first got pulled up and he was trying to figure out who he was. When you have the unlimited ability like he does, and aptitude for this business, I could sit back and just picture stuff for him to do to guys - vicious stuff, and aggressive stuff, and utilizing his strength and athletic ability.

I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.

If you are born black, and you don't accept your natural status as a victim, then the validity of your blackness is immediately called into question.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he's a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way.

I didn't want people to know me as a victim.

If you're not a victim, and you don't need help, then you're definitely seen as a threat as a woman.

As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator.

I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

I certainly don't feel like I've been the victim of typecasting.

I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.

I have never been a victim of antisemitism - if you put to one side my war-time experience. That said, I am lucky not to have been sent into a concentration camp.

If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

I believe that if you think about what style means, you won't become a fashion victim.

In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face discrimination based on the way that God or Nature or our Intelligent Designer created us.