Quotes About Identity

I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.

I know the community mostly for its art and culture... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes... it feels like home.

Uh, my lord, I am not actually food. You do realize this, yes?

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

I'm always sketchy of people who don't like grits.

It's a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Often we can't reach what is in front of us until we let go what is behind. Don't let your struggle become your identity.

There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself.

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

Place is security, space is freedom.

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.