Quotes About Identity

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One

No. No way. That name is reserved for females with grace and elegance, not this girl. This girl is...beastly.

Give up trying to convince people who you are, instead confuse them. It is a lot more fun!

I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence.

We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

I'm not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That's how you make the new -- by putting something else with what you've got. And I'm unashamedly an American integrationist.

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

I'm really the addition of other peoples' imagination, quite honestly. It's what they see me as, and I'm very happy to comply. I find things are more varied that way.

One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.

we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves