Quotes About Identity

Now, what did you say your name was?" Bill asked.9 "I'm Frank Sinatra." "And what is it that you do?" "I'm a singer." "I believe I've heard of you," said Bill, deadpan. "Well, I hope so," Sinatra replied with considerable grace.

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I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.

A fourth-grade teacher, shortly before beginning a unit on world cultures, passes out a form asking the children to fill out where their parents "are from." The bright child who raised her hand earlier hesitates, knowing that her parents are undocumented entrants who fear being discovered and deported.

Closely related to differential racialization—the idea that each race has its own origins and ever-evolving history—is the notion of intersectionality and antiessentialism. No person has a single, easily stated, unitary identity.

Wilde had to live his life twice over, first in slow motion, then at top speed. During the first period he was a scapegrace, during the second a scapegoat. For the three and a half years he lived after his release from prison, he saw pass before him, mostly in dumb show, a multitude of people he had known earlier, who evaded him.

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

Give your family greater depth, greater permanence, greater individuality, and give your kids a bigger identity and a bigger sense of inclusion and belonging. This is how you give them real ownership and equity in their own family!

Feeling became fashionable and emotion became a theatre in which people were players who no longer knew who they were off the stage.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

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America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

Whether we find it appealing or not is another question, but personally I like being fourth cousin to a mushroom and having a bonobo as my closest living relative. It makes me feel a part of the world.

Every new discovery about the genome is consistent with evolution having happened. Whether we find it appealing or not is another question, but personally I like being fourth cousin to a mushroom and having a bonobo as my closest living relative. It makes me feel a real part of the world.

For the individual, it inflicted severe damage to the ancient primary identity with a multigenerational family and clan and commenced a profound psychological slide toward atomization that would permit the herding of the population for a quarter century after 1949 into social and economic experiments, some of which proved stupendously destructive.

Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don't fit where you don't belong

Twenge says that in the 1950s only 12 per cent of teenagers agreed with the statement 'I am an important person', but by the late 1980s this proportion had risen to 80 per cent.

The recognition that what we have seen is the rise of an insecure narcissism – particularly among young people – rather than a rise in genuine self?esteem now seems widely accepted.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

Here, race was so difficult and complicated, it was a kaleidoscope you could keep on turning.

If you were from a state that didn't fight for the Confederacy, you were a Yankee.

Theophilus Freeman was right over here. He's the one that sold Solomon Northup out of Twelve Years a Slave.