“The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.” ChoicesPowerfulConditionsStyleIdentityPropertyDwellingOur ChoicesEmblems Book:From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place Source: From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place
“Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.” LittlesSelfLife IsExistenceWonderClassRolesModernMiddleConditionsIdentitySourceReturnDegreesMajorsCrisisSakeDefinedRevelationsMiddle ClassDaily LifeUrbanTrue SelfAcheStressfulIdentity CrisisRole PlayingSelf Revelation Author:E. O. Wilson
“Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time.” PersonsSuccessfulEconomicConditionsIdentityLifestyleManageOur TimeRetirementSuccessful Person Author:Lee Johnson
“Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.” ThinkingArtSelfAgeFormLyingTermSupportGenerationsGroupsConditionsIdentityBirthFairsPressureJewPunishmentPassingFamiliarPassingsTemptationOrganizedPretendingComing OutClosetsEscapingAnti SemitismAgeism Author:Gloria Steinem
“I don't see a huge difference between the African condition and the black American condition. The only real difference is that black Americans live in the richest country on Earth surrounded by a majority white population and are almost entirely disconnected from their original culture and their God-given identity.” RealCountryEarthCultureGivenBlackDifferencesWhiteConditionsIdentityHugeOriginalsMajorityPopulationDisconnected Author:Kola Boof