Quotes About Identity

Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.

I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

The things that make us human often make us ill.

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

History is the self-consciousness of humanity.

There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world.

Trying to be more than human one becomes less.

Jesus can identify with our weaknesses or failures because He shared in our humanity in the flesh.

I'm all groan up in America.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

I think pimp, therefore i am.

I stopped and I thought, 'What would Jesus do?' So I didn't exist.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

I should like to be a horse.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.