Quotes About Identity

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

There's a lot of power and responsibility that comes with owning who you are as a woman.

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.

What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.

You are exactly who the Greatest You (aka God) most wanted to be, not a frail offshoot who must bow, curtsey, and yield to this "higher power" but an unbeknownst Lord yourself.

A woman today knows that the power of her femininity is very important.

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

The true greatness of a nation lies in its character, not in its economic or military power.

I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.'

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

Chihiro, huh? Her real name's Chihiro? Can't beat the power of love.

Greatness knows itself.

Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

I would not be able to define my star power as I do not know what that is.

No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.

Power is neither male or female.

Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the Eurozone.

Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?