Quotes About Identity

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.

What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

Be black, shine, aim high.

Italy is only a geographical expression.

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

Literature is the history of the soul.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

We'll have a baby who stutters repeatedly We'll name him history

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.