Quotes About Identity

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen 'Hey, you'

Johnny zingt geen liedjes. Johnny is zelf een liedje.

Sometimes people escape from childhood traumas by splitting into a whole spectrum of different, fully functioning identities, a condition known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). So distinct are these personalities that MPD victims will have not only different handwriting styles, artistic talents, and knowledge of foreign languages, but even different allergies, illnesses, and reactions to drugs, depending upon which personality they are "using" at the moment.

I'm Short and fat and proud of that!!

There are many histories of North America. The experiences of successive waves of immigrants are distinct, as are—to a large degree—the histories of the different classes compromising the immigrant waves. The histories of the various peoples native to the continent are also quite distinct within themselves. The story of each of these groups holds a rightful claim to its own integrity, to its own place and fullness of meaning within the whole. To deny this is to distort.

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.

We know ourselves only as far as we've been tested.

I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.

What is the church? The church is a part of Christ; it is nothing less than Christ Himself. The church is the element of Christ in the believers. When this element in so many believers is added together, it equals the church. The church is not a composition of Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, and Chinese. The church is the totality of the Christ in all His believers.

Jeremiah 13:23 says, "Can the Cushite change his skin, / Or the leopard his spots? / Then you also may be able to do good, / Who are accustomed to do evil.

An idea abstracted from man does not fully exist…. There is no word that is not also flesh.

Do you want to know who you are Don't ask. Act Action will delineate and define you.

Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.

I placed no trust in faiths, doctrines, ideologies, institutions. Thus I could stand only upon my own feet. But I was a Pole, molded by Polishness, living in Poland. And so I needed to look deeper for my 'self,' in the place where it was no longer Polish but simply human

Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.

I am a collection of the family's body parts.

Joey, it's high time, dear child. What will people say? If you don't want to be a doctor, at least be a womanizer, or a fancier of horses, be something... be something definite...

I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!

I even stopped walking to give some thought to the fact that everyone, after all, wants to be himself, so I too want to be myself, for example who would love syphilis, of course no one loves syphilis, but after all, a syphilitic man also wants to be himself, namely a syphilitic, it is easy to say "I want to be well again," and yet it sounds strange, as if to say "I don't want to be who I am.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

make strong women weak and weak men strong

Son sus dioses. Ustedes los crearon, no ellos a ustedes. ¿Cómo podrían ser distintos a ustedes?