Quotes About Identity

Around World War II, we were proud as a people but modest as individuals.

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.

Too commonly sex does not have the dignity of a sacramental event because sex is thought to be the means of the search for self rather than the expression and communication of one who has already found himself, and is free from resort to sex in the frantic pursuit of his own identity.

To consume the Eucharist is an act of anticonsumption, for here to consume is to be consumed, to be taken up into participation in something larger than the self, yet in a way in which the identity of the self is paradoxically secured.

a language is just a dialect with an army,

You are the first one, so we are your servants," another replies. "That makes sense," agrees another clone.

But you didn't lose touch with a place when it wasn't there any more, you didn't lose touch with yourself as you were when you were part of it, with your childhood, with your simplicity then.

Horace Pendergast, originally from Cairo, Illinois.

WITH the growing population of slaves in the Southern States of America, there is a fearful increase of half whites, most of whose fathers are slaveowners and their mothers slaves.

És nem lehetne ez a te igazságod is? Szeretném, ha a tied lenne. Szeretném, hogy egészen megismerj. – (…) A te igazad nem lehet az enyém.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan....

I cannot paint what then I was.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

So if I'm not normal and you're not normal and they're not normal—why in the blue blazes do we all spend so much time pretending we are?

There is no such thing as a normal person. There is just you and me." - Willie Nelson

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

we had people who had authentic identity cards ask for the cards of people who had already died, but who had not yet been registered as dead by the registrar. This was a very safe way to help people get good identity cards. People who were seized often said that their card had been forged—which wasn't true—in order to protect the others.

Why didn't you give me away? I could have been...I could have been him.

An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself . . . and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

Did you see that thing? That's Sidat-Singh! The Syracuse Walking Dream!