“I look white to a lot of people. And I'm not. I'm African-American. I'm mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because that definition fits. So, you know, I've dealt with the conflict my whole life between how I look and my actual ethnic and racial identity.” PeopleKnowsLooksWholeWhiteIdentityFitConflictDefinitionsWhole LifeAfrican AmericanRacial IdentityMulattoes Author:Mat Johnson
“There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.” ArtViewsIdentityConflictArgumentArguingFollowersSupporterNo PointPartisans Author:Michael Lewis
“Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure or survival through work, the integration of motherhood and the world of work is a source of ambivalence, struggle, and conflict for the great majority of women.” WorldDoneChoicesPleasureStruggleIdentitySourceConflictSurvivalMajorityMotherhoodIntegrationAmbivalence Book:Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools
“Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.” NeedsLooksNationsEnemyIdentityDependsConflictCollectivesTribesSeparateness Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and the messiness, our sometimes dividedness, dealing with gender and other hierarchies, and also our identities outside of them, deeply personal and yet somehow critical and circumspect.” ThinkingWritingSometimesExistenceIdentityKeysConflictGenderCriticalOnlineHierarchyExaminingMessiness Author:Kate Zambreno
“I've always been interested in the social conflict of my age, my own time, as well as the result of positive and negative of social change, and the ongoing quest we all have, from the cradle to the grave, for identity.” WellsAgeSocialMy OwnResultsIdentityConflictNegativeGravesQuestsSocial ChangeOngoingCradle Author:Stephanie Rothman
“I think it's too easy to just say that there is a direct and necessary conflict between black identity and gay identity. I think it's more nuanced than that simply because I think black is a color and then people layer on top of it all kinds of socio-cultural elements.” PeopleThinkingKindEasyBlackIdentityColorGayConflictElementsDirectAll KindsLayers Author:John Amaechi
“"The Invisible Woman" was about trying to show this conflict in [Nelly Ternan] woman truthfully, between her own identity, but also being in love with someone who I think made very high demands from her.” ThinkingTryingMadeShowsIdentityDemandConflictInvisibleBeing In Love Author:Felicity Jones
“Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.” Has BeensIdentityBattleConflictAspectFundamentalsConsistentSudan Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken Catastrophe and Eggs Overwhelming and a tall, cool Janitor-in-a-Drum. I like to walk out of a restaurant with enough gas to open a Mobil station.” WellsEnoughWalksFansIdentityPersonalityConflictFunctionCrisisOilDietsRestaurantsGasEggsStationsChickensTallOverwhelmingCatastropheBurgersIdentity CrisisJanitorOmeletsPatchouli Author:Tom Waits
“The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.” ThinkingWorldMindMeanMadeStatesFactsProblemFoundGivenIdentityExpressionConflictFundamentalsErrorsComplexesPhilosopherStatementsThinkerSeparatenessFragmentation Author:Eckhart Tolle