Quotes About Identity

Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.

If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

In my experience the difference between a straight and a bisexual is about four pints

Imagine if the whole point of this experience on planet Earth was to just open ourselves up more fully to who we really are, without filters, without masks, without any restrictions.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I'm very much a jazz poet.

I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being 'scared' is not who we are. It is not our identity.

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

I experienced racism in different settings: I was followed in stores, in cars. The way you experience racism depends on how you deal with it. My memories of Goodeve are good ones.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.