Quotes About Identity

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.

Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

Politics should be about politics, not tribal ties

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.