Quotes About Identity

Don't you know that if you deny the truth about yourself you lose your soul?

I'm glad to see that the crusading spirit of your forebears hasn't been entirely obliterated by rock and roll.

his naval namesake. He spoke German as a

Parliament banned the wearing of political uniforms in public. That finished them. If they couldn't strut up and down in their black shirts they were nothing. The

se quedó asombrado ante el desconocido en que se había convertido.

pensaba que el orgullo nacionalista era una verdadera gilipollez

Ya no estaba seguro de que fuera su hogar.

He said it in the half-embarrassed, half-defiant tone of someone admitting that he belongs to a religious sect. "You

He could survive anywhere but he belonged nowhere.

Tôt ou tard, toute femme indépendante se fait traiter de sorcière.

You know that we English are not all the same, though, don't you?

This is the problem of having an empire. Riffraff from all over the world think they're part of it." The

Bien, Francis; ¿me habéis traído a vuestro gemelo? —preguntó al fin.

Bien, Francis; ¿me habéis traído a vuestro gemelo? —preguntó al fin. —Es mi hermano Philip, señora, el prior de Kingsbridge

Obama said: "It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled—Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals, or a collection of red states and blue states: we are, and always will be, the United States of America.

Al negro de raza la arruga no amenaza»

The cross identified him as a Catholic: Protestants believed it was superstitious to wear one.

S'infilò un vestito da tennis, lungo fino al ginocchio che si era cucita da sola accorciando l'orlo sfilacciato di un vecchio abito di sua madre. Non sarebbe andata a giocare a tennis, ma a ballare e il suo obiettivo era di sembrare americana. Si mise il rossetto e la cipria e si pettinò i capelli sciolti, sfidando la preferenza governativa per le trecce.

If we're all aggressive, obedient solders [sic], who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches?

mustache, a face which

Esta es la historia de mis abuelos y de los vuestros, de nuestros padres y de nuestras propias vidas. De alguna forma es la historia de todos nosotros.»   KEN FOLLETT

War enables people to be what they really are…" Dieter Franck in Jackdaws

If you remove Al Sharpton's blackness, he disappears. He's transparent. There's nothing there because he bases his whole life on his blackness. Me, I'm a black man; but my blackness has submission to my Christianity.

The President of the United States, if you remove his blackness, then just ask the question, is he a good President or is he a bad President for the United States? Just remove the blackness and make that decision.