Best Identity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.”

Source: Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics

“When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.”

Real Whole Problem Care Talking Identity Music Is Gun Raised Rap Sexism Sympathy Real Things Rap Music

Author:Samantha Morton

“I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.”

Trying Ideas Character Cities New York Identity London Hotel Venice Soho

Author:Jean Nouvel

“One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.”

Term Identity Narrative Immigrants Shed

Author:Joseph O'Neill

“I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.”

Bigs One Thing Fans Identity Defining Define Yourself Identity Politics

Author:Andrej Pejic

“When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for ALL - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.”

White Talking Class Feminism Identity Color Educated Apology Creeds Orientation Educated Women

Author:Christine Pelosi

“You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it.”

Dream Order Identity Who You Are Manifest

Author:Joy Page

“I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.”

Acting Identity Crisis Identity Crisis

Author:Matthew Rhys

“Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.”

Ifs Young Difficult Challenges Powerful Identity Ethics Staying Commandments Rail Chaste Difficult Challenges Young Life

Book:Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America

Source: Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America

“Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.”

People Years Past Moving Race Groups Identity Variety Manners Southern Accents Yankees Brainwashing Brainwashed Confederate Ethnic Groups Brainwash Yankee Fans

Author:John Shelton Reed

“Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.”

Ifs Difficult Views Identity Comfortable Concepts Shakes Something New Difficult Times

Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.”

Creative Identity West Cultural Identity

Author:Taiye Selasi

“We Are All One. When we allow ourselves to become aware of this statement in its purest form, we open the doors to reveal the oneness of being. Using the process of conscious evolution we begin to recognise our true underlying identity, for once we have glimpsed the existence of this realm, we then begin to reveal what it is . . . . our true natural state.”

Men States Form Process Natural Existence Doors Identity Evolution Conscious Statements Oneness Realms Recognise

Author:Jim Harrison

“In this world we see nothing but diversity. Everyone thinks separate ideas and wants to develop a separate identity. They fight wars with each other. They destroy each other's identities.”

Thinking World Want Ideas War Humanity Fighting Identity This World Buddhism Diversity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.”

Ifs Writing Believe Wells Use Might Energy Opinion Identity Pure Ego Believe In You Willpower

Author:William Zinsser

“I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.”

Identity Findings

Author:Josh Lucas

“When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.”

Kind Littles Bigs Young Bits Loses Identity Needed Band Little Bit Get Away

Author:Roger Meddows Taylor

“It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.”

Years Wells Important Identity Brands Evolve Through The Years

Author:Donatella Versace

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

People Identity Majors Crosses Jew Boundaries Experts Permit Crossings

Author:A. B. Yehoshua

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

People Giving Identity Territory Expanding Israeli

Author:A. B. Yehoshua

“What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.”

Care Party Issues Policy Identity Democratic Mere Debate Health Care Stakes Democratic Party

Author:Thomas Frank

“I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? I was an invalid. Football had given me everything: identity, money, confidence, friendships. I wondered what kind of man I would be without it.”

Ifs Thinking Men Kind I Can Play Feelings Would Be Given Identity Football Bed Desperate American Football

Author:Keith Millard

“Because the one who by excellency of nature transcends all quantity and size and magnitude...has now...contracted himself into a quantity and size and has acquired a physical identity, do not hesitate any longer to draw pictures and to set forth, for all to see, him who has chosen to let himself be seen.”

Seeing Identity Draws Size Invisible Chosen Visible Quantity Magnitude

Author:John of Damascus

“Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it's building shows to back up that hit show; it's creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.”

People Want Shows Process Identity Building Creating Bricks Rebuilding

Author:Leslie Moonves

“The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.”

Doe Identity Shapes Asking Marvelous Good Questions Marvelous Things

Author:David Whyte

“My hair is my identity.”

Identity Hair

Author:Ethan Zohn

“Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.”

Years Identity Crisis Identity Crisis

Author:Sara Zarr

“It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.”

Giving Social Identity Position Permanent

Author:J. B. Jackson

“The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.”

Knows Form Nations Loss Identity Defeat Contemporary Inevitable Colonization National Identity

Author:Slobodan Milosević

“I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.”

Thinking World Long Seems Hours Journey Identity Computer Hot Meaningful Psychological Despite Places In The World Long Hours Searching For Love

Author:Meg Rosoff

“Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God’s adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ. This is who we are. This is our identity.”

Children Today Christ Identity Brother Saint Who We Are Brothers And Sisters Adopted Saint Paul Adopted Children Sisters In Christ

Author:Pope Francis

“God is calling forth a generation that is passionate for His presence. A generation that knows who they are and Whose they are. He is calling forth sons and daughters who don't find their identity in revival but in Christ. For the Great Commission must flow out of the Great Commandment. Our destinies must flow out of our identities as beloved children of God who know their worth, value and honor before the Father...we have nothing to prove and nothing to lose...It is the time for change. IT is time for revival and reformation in this generation.”

“I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.”

Needs Moving Identity Prove Keep Moving Foreigners Passports

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.”

Space Identity Gender Repetition Exterior

Author:Judith Butler

“There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.”

Way Feels Identity Humiliate

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.”

Christian Jesus Christ Religious Strength Identity Victory Performances Accomplishment Pastor

Book:One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

Source: One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World

“I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs”

Source: THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS

“I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.”

Knows Helping Identity Landscape Help Me

Book:From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

Source: From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

“The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.”

Choices Powerful Conditions Style Identity Property Dwelling Our Choices Emblems

Book:From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

Source: From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

“Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity”

Identity Core Individualism Mobility American Identity

Book:From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

Source: From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

“My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.”

World Stills Bigs Young Process Issues Identity Tough Decided Teenager Belonging Nationality

Author:Hiam Abbass

“Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself; in fact, confused.”

Children Facts Young Felt My Own Identity Who I Am Confused Young Children Ambivalent

Author:James McGreevey

“Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.”

Ifs Play Roles Identity Who You Are Individuality Roles In Life

Book:In the City of Shy Hunters

Source: In the City of Shy Hunters

“Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.”

Thinking World Stills Real Matter Light Attention Identity Real World Exposed What Matters Uncertain Misconception Vets Making Friends

Book:Mastery

Source: Mastery

“The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the same question as the old culture war: 'Who are we?' But the earlier query was primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The new question is about how we define ourselves ethnically, racially and linguistically. It is, in truth, one of the oldest questions in our history, going back to our earliest immigration battles of the 1840s and 1850s.”

War States Culture Asks United United States Groups Identity Battle Authority Immigration Citizenship Transcendent Residence National Identity Queries New Cultures Old Culture

Author:E. J. Dionne

“Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation to our own world perception and set of values.”

World Book Values Reading Identity Perception Stronger Seeking Affirmation Emerging Books And Reading Stronger Than Before

Author:Amalia Kahana-Carmon

“I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.”

Stories Used Identity Who I Am Used To Be Versus

Author:Seth Gordon

“I needed to be myself and find my own identity.”

My Own Identity Needed

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.”

Firsts Ideas Order Identity Counterfeit Self Identity

Author:Andre Gide

“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.”

Source: Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

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