Quotes About Identity

Get a New Mental Picture of Yourself

You" as a personality are not in competition with any other personality simply because there is not another person on the face of the earth like you, or in your particular class. You are an individual. You are unique. You are not "like" any other person and can never become "like" any other person. You are not "supposed" to be like any other person and no other person is "supposed" to be like you.

in finding in oneself an individuality, uniqueness, and distinctiveness that is akin to the idea of being created in the image of God.

In fact, it is literally impossible to really think positively about a particular situation as long as you hold a negative concept of your "self.

When your self-image is adequate and one that you can be wholesomely proud of, you feel self-confident. You feel free to "be yourself" and to express yourself. You function at your optimum.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

Now I become myself. It's taken time, many years and places.

My facea negative in the slatewindow,I sitin a litcorridor that racesthrough a darkone.Riding the "A" [1963]

I'm two eyes looking out of a suit of armor. I write because I can't talk.

We all need to have confidence in how we look and who we are. God made us in his image. Who are we to judge his work?

Fashion helps people...Fashion...makes us better people. The right clothes can make you feel great. They can transform you...

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

Blacks should be used to play whites. For centuries we had probed their faces, the angles of their bodies, the sounds of their voices, and even their odors. Often our survival had depended on the accurate reading of a white man's chuckle or the disdainful wave of a white woman's hand.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham -- both are certain they are the real American.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

Before her, with sharp blue eyes and perfectly coiffed blond hair, was Josephine Marie Elizabeth Cavendish, Her Grace, the Duchess of Durham, widow of the fifth duke, and aunt to the Cavendish siblings. One did not call her Josie. Amelia had asked.

Sometimes I cannot state what race they are speaking my fingers"

My parents' silences about many things alarmed me. They made me aware of invisible lines that I couldn't see that they drew between themselves and the rest of the world. I never knew when that line might be drawn to exclude me.