Quotes About Identity

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that,.

We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience.