Quotes About Identity

What's up. This is Dave, the one you saw in your hallway. He's not a psychotic killer or anything," he lied

Wong is the most common surname in the world . . . " " . . . John is the most common first name in the world." "That's right," I said. "And yet there's not a single person named John Wong. I looked it up." "You know, I work with a John Wong.

the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight.

If we look hard enough, we can discern hundreds of parts: kings and queens, warriors and troubadours, mages, bullies, and saints. And hustlers, adventurers, survivors, rebels, reactionaries, and rogues. And the part of us that wants to be more than human, or rather more fully human. I believe that we need to enlist all these separate selves into a single army of free companions who respect each other and love each other to the death.

I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'

He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

Miz Cooper says don't pay her no mind because she is most likely one of them Duck River Baptists and probably a Republican ...

People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. – Mohammed Ali

The guy with Floyd's countenance should have a name like Isaiah or Abraham or Hezekiah. The name Floyd seems mundane for such an intriguing-looking man.

I'm more human now. It's the God in people that connects them to me.– Ali

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

It's not that I don't like my mum's face; it's just that it belongs on her, not me.

I offered her the benefit of my company this New Year's Eve, but informed her that as of midnight I should much like to insist that she refers to me as Master Oscar at all times. For that is whom I am, and I can't stress enough the importance of being Oscar.

Much like the deaf community, we autistics are building an emergent culture. We individuals, with our cultures of one, are building a culture of many.

I felt like I would disappear if I were not hemmed in by the familiar and unchanging.

My Life is your life, Mary Ann I am not just acting like you I am you living in your spirit.

To be educated is not so much to be taught as it is to be awakened to who you really are.

Every moment is the moment you decide: Will I be that magnificence, or will I continue to pretend I'm less than what I know I am?

Am I a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, or a Jew? I do not know . . . for Truth has set fire to these words.

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

A movie grants a visa. A book makes you a citizen.

In a world that has done all it can to erase or obscure the civilizational memory of the West, remembering becomes a moral obligation, and a key to recovering our sanity.