Quotes About Identity

Shanghai is a bastard son of a city, an offspring nobody wants until it has something worth taking.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Theory became a personal badge, chosen as one might choose a party or church. It meant enlisting with a group, and theories began to have groupies rather like pop stars do.

D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?

Where do we come from?" "What are we?""Where are we going?

it's still something of a shock to recognise just how 'multiple' we are.

My thought is that the average adjusted boy is, if anything, more humanly wasted than the disaffected. So let us go on to discuss his stupidity, his lack of patriotism, his sexual confusion, and his lack of faith.

One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.

You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller.

It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

The wish of all things is to continue to be what they are. --Spinoza

Your so-called "self" is a composite superimposed on the activity of many competing subpersonalities or agents. What you perceive as your consciousness is a string of temporary heroes rising above those they have defeated. And so you seek out heroes in the common story of your race.

se había transformado en algo que era más, y a la vez, menos que humano

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

Places ain't home. People is. Bricks and chairs is nothing.

No man could truly say what he was until he had been pushed to the edge of things with the precipice of his own ruin staring up at him.

Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past. I

Memories are important, like the bones of the mind. We build ourselves upon them, flesh and blood moulded around the pictures of what is past.

The English are a great race,' he told me once. 'But they have a deep down belief that they are the best of all peoples.

Be true to yourself" - Ven Zallow

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self.

If you must give me a label, then label me a human being. I have no pride in being a human, though, because I have nothing to do with my becoming one. But, whereas animals don't have a rational code of ethics, I like to think I do. Which is where I am partisan. Moral partisanship is the reason for my "anger." And if I don't protest what needed to be protested, I might just as well be an animal.

Did I want a lawyer? Hell no, I didn't even want to be a lawyer.