Quotes About Identity

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom.

I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.

If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got?

Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It's about freedom.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.