Quotes About Identity

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

A people's art is the genesis of their freedom.

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.

Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

I should not dare to call my soul my own.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

Our names were made for us in another century.

When I get older, I will be stronger They'll call me freedom, just like a Wavin' Flag

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.

Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.

I will not stop fighting against Islam until I have achieved freedom for our country.