Quotes About Identity

you can drop those 'a'ints' too. It ain't 'acting white' to speak your own language properly. People fought for you to get the best possible education. It would break your grandpa's heart to hear you talk like nothing had changed.

What you do and what you are is what matters.

Robert Bossu they called him, Robert the Hunchback

If I won't be myself, who will?

I am a stranger in a world I never made

Papa Ubu: Yes, gentlemen, but however beautiful it may be, it can't compare with Poland. Because if there weren't any Poland, there wouldn't be any Poles!

He's not a man, he's a machine.

One writes to make a home for oneself on paper, in time, in other's minds.

If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with themselves, the old dictum that everything is identical with itself becomes in [todays u...

If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with themselves, the old dictum that everything is identical with itself becomes in [todays understanding of the universe] a principle invariably false to facts.

As a matter of fact we live in a world in which non-identity is as entirely general as gravitation, and so every identification is bound to be in some degree a mis-evaluation. In a four-dimentional world where 'every geometrical point has a date,' even an 'electron' at different dates is not identical with itself, because the sub-microscopic processes actually going on in this world cannot empirically be stopped but only transformed.

McNeish's tomcat, which had mistakenly been named Mrs. Chippy

But what am I?An infant crying in the night:An infant crying for the light:And with no language but a cry.

My friends are my country.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

I am that which unloves me and loves; I am stricken, and I am the blow.

A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away.

For the worst is this after all; if they knew me, not a soul upon earth would pity me.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Lack of friends means, stranger in one's own country.

They racialize without 'race': Thatcher's remarks about 'New Commonwealth immigrants' is one such example.

What would happen to the one-drop rule with regard to whites (the next section will discuss its deployment to identify the black population)?

In other words, whiteness is relational, and regarded as the norm unless non-whites are encountered and their status as co-citizens acknowledged.

In understanding the widespread use of skin-lightening creams among black women in South Africa, the USA, the UK, and many other societies, from Brazil and the Philippines to Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and the Caribbean, the role of white colonialism by the British, Spanish, and Portuguese cannot be underestimated.