Quotes About Identity

I design differently because I am Patrick Kelly, and Patrick Kelly is black

In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

Design has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldy.

Whatever the trend might be, I'm thinking of the Woman for whom I'm designing it.

If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace.

... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

I don't want to find myself designing for the press.

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting.

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren't merely objects of desire.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.