Quotes About Identity

I was happy as a clam. But who wants to be a clam?

was an antidote to the self-consciousness that consumed me as an eccentric teenager in search of an identity.

To identify with an ancient legend such as Cincinnatus, or a living legend such as Washington, Franklin, or Jefferson, was to ask for nothing other than the recognition from fellow Americans for having done so.

No one can be told who they are. It is an experience, a shift in reality, a change in consciousness.

They resented meritocratic elites, experts, and professional classes, who had celebrated market-driven globalization, reaped the benefits, consigned working people to the discipline of foreign competition, and who seemed to identify more with global elites than with their fellow citizens.

reflect a long-term and slowly unfolding loss of a way of life for the white, less educated working class.

leaving poor whites without "the comfort of knowing that someone was worse off and more despised than they were.

Cô không có lá»—i khi tình c? ? trong má»™t xã há»™i không c?n nh?ng ph?m ch?t c?a cô.

Global supply chains, capital flows, and the cosmopolitan identities they fostered made us less reliant on our fellow citizens

Of all the thoughts that are formed in our mind, the first is the thought 'I'. Our mind first forms itself as the thought 'I', and only then does it form other thoughts. Without an 'I' to think or know them, no other thoughts could be formed. All the other thoughts that

I dream therefore I am." - Marge to her young son Mikee

I realize I'm black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody's wish.

In a world where everybody is over the bar, people don't buy what you know. They buy who you are.

The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exercise in respect of imposed identity.

In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.

It must be nice, Queenie thought, to be one thing or another, to know where you belonged.

Lawrence: A man who gives himself to the possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life. In my case my effort for these years to live in the dress of Arabs, and to imitate their mental foundation, quitted me of my English self, and let me look at the West and its conventions with new eyes, and destroyed it all for me. At the same time I could not sincerely take on the Arab skin: it was an affectation only.

You became what you wanted to become. That's what Ezra believe. You could become it if you tried hard enough, could take what you really were and change it, force-feed yourself a new life until it became your old life, too, blurred together until a better self emerged.

So it was that, figuratively speaking, Jews helped build the house from the foundations up, and then they were told that as Jews they were not welcome.

Take the story of David. The way poor King Saul gets written about, it's like he's an idiot and a maniac, because you think, well, it was written by David's guys. But by the end, David looks more like the idiot and maniac, even though he's supposed to be the hero. Point: there comes a time in everyone's life when only the truth will do, and you have to look reality square in the eyes.

She, if anyone, was on a hell-bound train. I mean, if you're masquerading as a do-gooder, why not go all the way?

Now that Olive was grown, I didn't know what to do with myself. You could build your life around one single thing, like a view or a child, but that was risky. You had so much to lose.

I wondered if small town people became smaller in order to fit. Perhaps they had to.

He suggested a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.