Quotes About Identity

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.

My father was an agnostic.

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

What makes my father different is the fact that he calls himself mad.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal!

You are — truly your father's son, Harry. . . .

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.