Quotes About Identity

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

I cannot be what I am not.

If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!

If you're depressed and called Morgan spend the first half of the day in Germany for some positive affirmation.

Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud... rock it loud.

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude toward Afrika become positive, you'll find that your understanding of and your attitude toward yourself will also become positive.

We are what we think.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?

I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

I don't think rock music has any positive function.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.