Quotes About Identity

Donc, il est juste et vrai que la séparation du spirituel et du sensuel chez un homme est signe de sa virilité, et la séparation du spirituel et du sensuel chez une femme est signe de sa prostitution. Et il suffirait que toutes les femmes, ensemble, se virilisent, pour que le monde, le monde entier, se transforme en bordel. ( from "Roman avec cocaïne" )

Unless we can trace our lineage to the original humans and find that we live where they lived, we are all international migrants. Furthermore we are all wanderers. We symbolically carry our homes on our backs, like turtles, snails, and crustaceans -- for the meaning and associations of home are always with us and affect our orientation in space and time, and how we negotiate our way through the world.

for instance. "When we say 'World Domination,' " Pavitt explained, "we're saying, 'Fuck you, we're from Seattle, and we don't care if the media machines are in L.A., we're going to create our own.

The loser," as TAD guitarist Kurt Danielson explained to the Rocket, "is the existential hero of the Nineties.

And because I don't like sports, and because I don't like disco dancing, and because I don't take drugs, and because I don't drink, and I don't beat my head into the floor, and I don't have a wife to beat, I have Big Black.

The younger the Jews, statistics showed, the shallower their religious roots.

by insisting on repatriation, the Rastafarian is liable to jump from the frying pan into the fire.

The culturally normalized so-called beauty practices of hair straightening and skin bleaching are indicators of this intergenerational syndrome of identity trauma

repatriation should "start in the minds and hearts of our people; in our words, actions and deeds we must go back to Africa. We may never set foot on the continent in our time, but we can live and represent our heritage each day we live in the world

Rastafari teachings vigorously advocated self-sufficiency through self-awareness and provided an alternative source of meaning and identity to lives that were frequently mired in hopelessness, alienation, and despair.

neocolonization.

Weber also saw that a bureaucratic world contained risks. It produced increasingly powerful and autonomous bureaucrats who could be spiritless, driven only by impersonal rules and procedures, and with little regard for the people they were expected to serve. Weber famously warned that those who allow themselves to be guided by rules will soon find that those rules have defined their identities and commitments.

spiritual and mental decolonization.

Must someone be in some sense a member of a human community, trained in its practices and beholden to its norms, in order to have a "self"? Responses to this issue have divided scholars into the individualist school and the collectivist school.

the Rastafari of Pelourinho already live spiritually in the midst of Africa and Jamaica. Thus, their goal is not to abandon where they live but to transform its Babylonian elements.

born Rastafari," but had "assumed the posture" in the late seventies or early eighties after being exposed to reggae music.

Sperm Donor. My mom had used that term. We can just call him Ed, the sperm donor. It wasn't the first time I had heard of my biological father being referred to this way. It wouldn't be the last. It was said like it was a joke.

When a person is given up for adoption or when a parent is nonexistent in the raising of the child, not only does the child suffer from the void, the family they were supposed to be part of has a gaping hole.

He did not belong to the Indians. He did not belong to the whites. And it was not time for him to belong to the stars. He belonged right where he was. He belonged nowhere.

He did not belong to the Indians. He did not belong to the whites. And it was not time for him to belong to the stars. He belonged right where he was now. He belonged nowhere.

Parochialism remains the Danes' defining characteristic, but their radically recalibrated sense of identity and national pride has created a curious duality best described as a kind of "humble pride," though many often mistake it for smugness.

This ungodly act is simply something that Finns do, like the British and their DIY, or the French and their adultery.

In some senses, the Finns can be considered über-Scandinavians.

Other countries love their flags,' a Danish dinner guest protested to me recently. 'Look at the Olympics!' 'Yes,' I said. 'That's true. But the French don't hoist the Tricolor on the cat's birthday.