I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am a bit old-school.”
“I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.”
“I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.”
“I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.”
“I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.”
“I am a black male who grew up in the inner city of Atlanta and no one ever followed me in a mall. I don't recall any doors clicking when I crossed the street. And I never had anyone clutching their handbag when I got on an elevator. I guess having two awesome parents who taught me to be a respectful young man paid dividends.”
“I am a black man
Who was born café con leche
I sneaked into a party, to which I had not been invited.
And I got kicked out. They threw me out.
When I went back to have fun with the black girls
All together they said 'Maelo, go back to your white girls'
And they kicked me out. They threw me out.”
“I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation.”
Source: So Far, So Good
“I am a black new wave artist.”
“I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once at home and away from home at the same time. It is inevitable that my perspective will be international.”
“I am a Black revolutionary woman, and because of this i have been charged with and accused of every alleged crime in which a woman was believed to have participated. The alleged crimes in which only men were supposedly involved, i have been accused of planning. They have plastered pictures alleged to be me in post offices, airports, hotels, police cars, subways, banks, television, and newspapers. They have offered . rewards for my capture and they have issued orders to shoot on sight and shoot to kill.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“I am a black woman,
A black queer woman.”
Source: From My Lips to Hers: Into my Queerness
“I am a Black Woman… An Unapologetic Exquisite Black Queen… Respect is Mandatory!”
“I am a black woman. Don't look beyond me. Don't see through me. Look me in the eye. Hold my gaze. Listen to my heart. See my soul. See me for who I am, not what you would like me to be. Accept or reject but don't hide from my truth.”
Source: The Heart and Soul of Black Women: Poems of Love, Struggle and Resilience
“I am a Black woman... Exquisite from the inside out.”
“I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.”
“I am a Black woman... Powerful, phenomenal, and incomparable.”
“I
am a black woman
tall as a cypress
strong
beyond all definition still
defying place
and time
and circumstance
assailed
impervious
indestructible
Look
on me and be
renewed”
“I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night”
Source: Continuum: New and Selected Poems
“I am a Black woman. True, I have been told time and time again that my best chance of success is to emulate the preferred traits of white maleness as much as possible. Still, mine is not the image of the great leaders in our history books, nor that of the heroes in our stories. For someone like me to expect any greatness without having exceptional talent and luck was, at best, foolish and, at worst, dangerous. This is not my birthright.”
Source: Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
“I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.”
“I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
“I am a blogger - that is an amazing thing for me, because it captures a moment in time every day.”
“I am a Bob Dylan fan.”
“I am a Body-for-LIFE Challenge 2000 Winner. "Winners finish and finishers win."”
“I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in German. I did that deliberately. I'm like a ghost. Look at how much media and advertising you're subjected to, this mindless chatter of advertising. I just block it out so effortlessly because it's all a foreign language to me. It's really a good thing for my head, living in Berlin.”
“I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us.”
Source: Death Watch
“I am a book I neither wrote nor read.”
Source: Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge
“I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.”
Source: Winter garden
“I am a book that nobody can understand or read”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“I am a book that nobody can understand or read. Sadly, without a care, they were quick to rip out the pages.”
Source: Pinwheels and Dandelions
“I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.”
Source: The Once and Future Spy
“I am a boring looking guy with a common face, ugly scars and a toothy smile.”
“I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.”
“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.”
“I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches.”
“I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.”
“I am a British guy living in the USA.”
“I am a Broadway theatre guy... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons”
“I am a broken person. And I know exactly where my cracks are and how deep they run. I don't pretend to not be a broken person and therein lies the big difference. Because the truth is, we are all broken in places, but it is those who know exactly where and how they are broken, who also know exactly where and how they are whole! And we may not be whole in all places and in all ways, but we take whatever wholeness that we do have, and we make good of it. And we try hard to work on the broken parts, and we ask for help when we need it.”
“I am a broken vessel, Lord—
rubble where a soul should be,”
Source: Heaven
“I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas”
“I Am a Bubble
In this Vast Ocean of Peace.”
Source: Affirmations: a daily handbook
“I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.”
“I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!”
Source: The woman in white
“I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.”
“I am a businessman. I am anything I need to be at any time.”
“I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.”