Quotes About Identity

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

Because I am an African I reserve the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this country [the UK], or anywhere else in the developed world, feel good about themselves.

We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.

Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.

It is typically Norwegian to be good

You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.

I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

I'm a good mother. I'm a good person.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

If we don't have souls then who am I talking to when I keep telling myself to be good?

I still wrestle with the catharsis of acting. I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that I don't always feel good.

It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days.

To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.