Quotes About Identity

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.

You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.

I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience."

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

PS…… confused from where you should start planning……. !! Well, start from who you are, where you are and how you are.

If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself.

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

The cost of failure is really high when you're contributing as yourself.

Anyone can take a false step And fall forever, Everyone is different. Where are they now, all those lost souls?

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing.

I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.