Quotes About Identity

I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be ... I'm free to be what I want.

For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

Rocky doesn't act nothing like me. Apollo Creed, the way he dances, the way he jabs, the way he talks.... That's me.

Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn't choose it and I don't want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free man -- it means "Beloved of God" -- and I insist people use it in speaking of and to me.

I'm not into fashion at all. I always wear the same thing: dark suits. I don't even know where I get them.

When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are

I Ain't Got No Quarrel With The VietCong...No VietCong Ever Called Me Nigger.

When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me is ME.

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

You don't have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe.

The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

To Javed- My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth; Barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity.

Who am I? Who art Thou? Where is the world?

In an over-organized society the individual is altogether crushed out of existence. He gains the whole wealth of social thought around him and loses his own soul.

Well, we never expected this!" they all say. "No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous, and scornful. But when you meet her, she is strangely meek, a completely different person altogether!" How embarrassing! Do they really look upon me as a dull thing, I wonder? But I am what I am.

Kendi boslugunuzla yuzlesmeden varliginizi dolduramazsiniz. Siir bizim kendimiz olmaya acilan kapimizdir. Ama bazen kendi kapimizi yuzumuze kapatiriz. Kim olursaniz olun, nasil olursaniz olun, ama kendinize girip ciktiginiz bir kapiniz olsun cocuklar. Az olun, ama hakiki olun! Bir gun kendi kapinizi calacak yuzunuz olsun. - Moottah

Çocuklu?un en bütük zenginli?i,ne negin sorumsuzlu?u,ne ana kuca??n?n sonsuz güveni,ne de çocukluk denildi?inde ilk akla gelen benzeri ?eyler galiba;bence,onun en büyük zenginli?i,gelece?e inanç duyabilme duygusu.Ancak bunu yitiren çocuk,ba?ka biri olmay? ba?ar?r.ba?ka biri olmak büyümektir.