“Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.” CountryStatesWholeRealityAmericaBeautifulSongSocialToo MuchIdentityEmotionalBearsCitizensRacismRiversNotesVariousFrighteningFabricUrbanEpicMistakenDoomSpoonsAnthologyClaudiaMistaken Identity Author:Hilton Als
“When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response.” PeopleWorldDealsIdentityEmotionalTreatsResponseEmotional Response Author:Laura Linney
“Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as “sophisticated,” “desirable,” “innovative,” “friendly,” and “trustworthy.”” IdentityEmotionalInspireProductsLowsCustomersLoyaltyBrandsChineseConsumersScoreFriendlyAttachmentAttributesBrandingSophisticatedDesirableChordsInnovativeTrustworthyCultivatingCustomer Loyalty Author:Nirmalya Kumar
“Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write those poems for the inauguration, I started asking deeper questions about my cultural identity, and my connection to America.” WritingSpiritualCreativeIdentityEmotionalInauguration Author:Richard Blanco
“Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.” HumansJoyGoalHuman BeingsEmotionIdentityEmotionalDignityExperienceFulfillingAccompanyLife Goal Book:Man's Search for Himself Source: Man's Search for Himself