Quotes About Identity

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.

Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

Look in the mirror and say, 'There is none other like you and for that reason alone you are beautiful.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

It seems to me that the fact that I am a woman is a bigger issue than the fact that I'm from the East. For me it isn't really important. I've only ever known myself as a woman.