“If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.” PeopleIfsHelpingIdentityOppressedHivEpidemics Author:Sarah Schulman
“So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there, or some sort of memory of it. It still is in the cultural memory and identity of these cities as much as it is in the physical and architectural memory. It's where these two things overlap, I think, that we're trying to explore with the photos.” PeopleThinkingTryingStillsTwoStoriesGamesMemoriesCitiesIdentityMetsConnectionsTwo ThingsOlympicsOlympics Games Author:Gary Hustwit
“Here in Europe some of the challenges have to do with structures that are so complicated. You've got Brussels, and you've got parliament, you've got councils and then you've got national governments. So people sometimes don't feel as if they know who's making decisions, and the more that we can bring people in and engage them, the better. Some of it is also cultural and social, people's sense of identity.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsSometimesGovernmentSocialChallengesDecisionIdentityEuropeStructureComplicatedParliamentCouncilMaking DecisionsBrussels Author:Barack Obama
“Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct. People feel, I think, less certain about their identity, less certain about economic security.” PeopleThinkingFeelsCertainCultureEconomicSecurityIdentityCommunicationInternetDirectClashEconomic Security Author:Barack Obama
“Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they had some type of identity, culture, civilization before they were brought here.” PeopleProblemCultureTeachIdentityTypeCivilizationAfrosCultural Identity Author:Malcolm X
“People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there is no doubt that that has produced populist movements both from the left and from the right in many countries in Europe.” PeopleWorldDifferentCountryCertainLeftDoubtMovementIdentityEuropeNo DoubtPlaces In The WorldPopulistNational Identity Author:Barack Obama
“When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, then obviously there's something there that's being tapped into; a suspicion on globalization, a desire to reign in it's excesses, a suspicion of elites and governing institutions that people feel may not be responsive to their immediate needs. And that sometimes gets wrapped up in issues of ethnic identify or religious identity or cultural identity, and that can be a volatile mix.” PeopleNeedsFeelsMaySometimesDesireReligiousIssuesIdentityTrumpInstitutionsCandidatesExcessElitesSuspicionReignGlobalizationGoverningUnconventionalCultural IdentityReligious Identity Author:Barack Obama
“For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively - between two people, you do retain separate people.” PeopleTwoSexIdentityContact Author:Tilda Swinton
“The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a complicated black community that was both bulwark to the larger white society as well as a threshing ground, so to speak, to hash out the differences that black people have among ourselves.” PeopleWellsArtSpeakBlackCommunityDifferencesChurchWhiteIdentityComplicatedWrestlingBlack PeopleBosomsBlack CommunityGrapplingBlack ChurchHashLiterary Art Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“We very constantly run this campaign to encourage people to go and get Identity Documents, to register, and so on. We'll continue to do that.” PeopleRunningIdentityCampaignsDocumentsRegister Author:Thabo Mbeki
“You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.” PeopleVirtueIdentityGrantsDocuments Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Many people question their religious identity today, not necessarily by thinking of converting to Judaism or to Islam: it's just that technologies seriously challenge the status of the human being. All technologies converge toward the same spot, they all lead to a Deus ex Machina, a machine-God.” PeopleThinkingHumansTodayChallengesReligiousHuman BeingsTechnologyIdentityMachinesIslamSpotsJudaismExesConvertingReligious Identity Author:Paul Virilio
“I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.” PeopleThinkingTryingUnderstandingSidesChallengesInterestingGrowing UpGrowingIdentityHugeIndustryTasteDiversityConnectionsMusicalConvinceTimingPeersParallelsMusic IndustryCircuitsMusical TasteEthnic Diversity Author:Miguel
“Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.” PeopleKnowsKidsIdentityCompeting Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“This patriotic revolution where people want to find their own identity are not racist but want to fight for the preservation of their own people. Their own country, their own values. Their own money. Their own borders. This is such a positive thing.” PeopleWantCountryValuesFightingIdentityRevolutionBordersRacistPatrioticPreservationPositive Things Author:Geert Wilders
“I started asking friends, my white friends around, I said, "What's something that you think all Asians have in common?" They almost always immediately said, "Slanted eyes." I thought that's really interesting. No. 1, it simply isn't true. Not all Asian Americans have slanted eyes, and of course, Asians aren't the only ethnic identities to have them. No. 2, we could talk about our slant on life and what it's like to be people of color, while at the same time, using this outdated and obscure racial slur, and turning it on its head.” PeopleThinkingSaidEyeCoursesWhiteInterestingCommonIdentityColorAskingObscureAsianReally InterestingOutdatedAsian AmericanSlursEthnic Identity Author:Simon Tam
“If we write our laws and design them around the most privileged members of society, i.e., billionaire football team owner, then we forget about the people who don't have the same resources to make an appeal, to fight a wrongful accusation. Those tend to be members of the LGBT community and people of color because those are the people who tend to engage in the work of reappropriation to subvert discrimination. And yet those are the same ones being denied, based on their own identities.” PeopleIfsWritingLawFightingCommunityForgetTeamDesignIdentityFootballColorMembersResourcesDiscriminationAppealsOwnersLgbtDeniedPrivilegedBillionaireAccusationFootball TeamLgbt Community Author:Simon Tam
“The 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.” PeopleIdentityChangedHabit Author:Tom Hiddleston
“Unless this [Barack Obama] American administration is willing to diverge from the conventional American policy in the Middle East by changing its basic attitudes on crucial questions, foremost of them Palestine, and support genuinely the rights of people for independence, sovereignty and identity across the board, the only "resolve" one would hope from the USA is to stay out of the Middle East for a while.” PeopleAttitudeSupportRightsMiddlePolicyIdentityWillingIndependenceEastAdministrationBarackBoardsUsaResolveCrucialMiddle EastConventionalSovereigntyPalestine Author:Ilan Pappe
“All over the world today people have a very strong desire to find a sense of identity, and at the same time that's coupled with the rise of absolutely absurd wars that relate to ethnic identity. Perhaps there is something deeply ingrained in people that relates to a sense of belonging, and without that, identity doesn't seem as real as it should.” PeopleWorldShouldWarRealSeemsTodayDesireStrongIdentityAbsurdRelateBelongingVery StrongWorld TodayStrong DesireEthnic Identity Author:Jaron Lanier
“I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.” PeopleYearsKindBookSchoolFoundHouseLeftStruggleIdentityTerribleFindingsMy FamilyMovedLibraryBoxesLike MeRecallsVolumeDelightedHereticContainingInquisitionSchool Library Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“The basis of national identity is to say, "This is authentic to me or my forebears," and is there even such a thing? How authentic is it to your life? Just because your grandfather did it, what does that have to do with you? If I say I'm working in the style of Rembrandt, so what? You can say it, but are you really? No, because when you try to literally copy a cultural artifact, you change it. It dissolves, and then who's looking at it? People who appreciate that kind of drawing, or people it means nothing to?” PeopleIfsTryingKindMeanDoeStyleIdentityAppreciateBasesDrawingCopiesGrandfatherArtifactsNational Identity Author:Ben Katchor
“Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shared not only linguistic meanings but also an experience and history. Those communities have progressively split in the twentieth century, and grown more heterogeneous, and writers emerging from minority communities have found themselves addressing audiences closer to their experience and history - a phenomenon derided by conservative white men as identity politics and multiculturalism in the arts.” PeopleMenArtFoundCommunityWhiteAudienceCenturyIdentityParticularConservativeMinoritiesPhenomenonSplitsWhite ManMulticulturalismAccustomedTwentieth CenturyEmergingNineteenth CenturyIdentity PoliticsEliot Author:Pankaj Mishra
“We want to represent all the French people with ideas that are neither left nor right: patriotism, defense of the identity and sovereignty of the people. If a person like me is described as being extreme-left and extreme-right at the same time, then that isn't far off the mark.” PeopleIfsWantPersonsIdeasLeftIdentityMarkExtremesDefenseLike MeSovereignty Author:Marine Le Pen
“I oftentimes receive the question, "What do you think is the most important social issue to focus on?" Or, "What's the most important component of identity? Is it gay rights or race or feminism?" And I'm like, "Well, they're all intertwined. It's all one conversation at the end of the day. You can't just pick one." I mean, people experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other.” PeopleThinkingKindMeanImportantDifferentFocusFeminismIdentityGayPrejudiceAll KindsSocial IssuesGay RightsMean People Author:Amandla Stenberg
“I hope one day it's not revolutionary just to be yourself, but I think that the work that's being done around identity and personhood is so important.I feel inspired by people around me who are part of this movement as well: Hari Nef and Rowan Blanchard and Willow Smith and these kids who are really not going to listen to anyone. "I'm just going to say whatever I feel. I'm going to be myself. And if you don't like it, then, you can go screw yourself."” PeopleThinkingImportantDoneKidsIdentityOne DayInspiredRevolutionaryBeing YourselfScrew You Author:Amandla Stenberg
“Probably. It's a weird thing with accents.When I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.” PeopleDifferentRealHomeSchoolIdentityDramaStrongerHolding OnDifferent PlaceWelsh Author:Iwan Rheon
“I've realized that a lot of people come to me because of what's called identity. In the sense of "he's like me" - more like identification. Identity is one of those nonsense words: it's been used so much it doesn't mean anything. As individuals, we don't want to stay the same; identity means sameness, and we don't want to be the same, we want to keep changing, we want to grow, we want to become something else. We want to evolve. So when people come to me, it's about resonance - it goes back to that word.” PeopleMeanIndividualIdentityEvolveNonsenseSameness Author:Vijay Iyer
“I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.” PeopleWayStuffInterestActingIdentityInternetPressesNicole Author:Nicole Kidman
“You do have this circumstance in Karachi that because people know things are changing, the stakes are higher. Everyone is thinking, "My home is threatened, my job is threatened, my identity is threatened, my world is threatened." And that creates a very particular sort of climate, that is linked.” PeopleThinkingWorldHomeIdentityCircumstances Author:Steve Inskeep
“I do think that people have a desire to talk about issues they may have wanted to avoid before. I've never had so many random conversations with people where they're so ready to talk about race, gender, sexual identity, or things that are happening in politics.” PeopleThinkingDesireIdentityGender Author:Sasheer Zamata
“The notion that -- which some people are trying to suggest, that by asking for the identity of an American person, that is the same as leaking it, is completely false. There's no equivalence between so-called unmasking and leaking.” PeopleTryingIdentity Author:Susan Rice
“The story of my life has been of public interest, which is why I've been so passionate about having a private identity. When I step into a character, people have to be able to suspend their disbelief; they have to be able to divorce me from Hermiona. And not having everyone know every single intimate detail of my entire life is part of me trying to protect my ability to do my job well.” PeopleTryingCharacterInterestAbilityIdentityProtectPassionateDivorceIntimateDisbeliefStory Of My Life Author:Emma Watson
“I have so many mentors. I'm really lucky to be surrounded by incredible mentors, whether it be Solange Knowles or Gloria Steinem or Ava DuVernay, there are so many awesome people in my life, and so I'm lucky for them to kind of have fostered my identity as I grow into myself.” PeopleKindIdentityLuckyIncrediblesMentor Author:Amandla Stenberg
“I believe our nation is in deep trouble. We seem to have lost our identity because in many ways we're separated from God. I believe it's imperative that God's people pray as Daniel did, or our nation may unravel morally and spiritually to the point of no return. I believe we desperately need the blessing of God.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveTroubleIdentityPrayingBlessing Author:Anne Graham Lotz
“I have this very kind of like heterodox idea of what an education is, what underpins identity. I don't think I'm very easily pigeon holed in any of those boxes, so I confront this. I have a staff full of young people who came up in a very different tradition and who feel very fired up about the big identity battles. I listen and I try to navigate them, but I don't find them mapping onto my life in a personal way which is, which is hard.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindDifferentIdentityBattleTradition Author:Lydia Polgreen
“There's something about the weekend, even for non-religious people, that feels sacred, so a violation of that sanctified time is almost a betrayal, something blasphemous. The sabbath is the edict to break from work. It was God's call-out to the slave to protect an identity beyond labourer - no production and consumption, just one day a week.” PeopleBreakWeekIdentityOne DayProtectSlaveBetrayalWeekendSabbath Author:Katrina Onstad
“I like to report. I like to go to the newsmakers. I like to get out. I've heard about people talking about the anchor as the voice of god. That set is not an altar. It's a great job, I love doing it, but I don't take that role as my identity - the anchorman - it sounds very old-fashioned.” PeopleIdentityGreat JobPeople Talking Author:Lester Holt
“We've organized human potential and have been better at using human potential better than any country on the face of the Earth. That's because we've recognized that our national creed, our national identity, is that it doesn't matter where you're from, it matters where you're going. You can come from hard circumstances and do great things. We've got to make that true for a whole variety of people who no longer feel that.” PeopleCountryEarthIdentityCircumstancesGreat ThingsVarietyHuman Potential Author:Condoleezza Rice
“You'd be surprised how quickly our identities evaporate when we were able to connect with people on a very personal level because we're all really trying to chase the same dream, we are looking for the same thing, we're raising our kids, we're just trying to get along. And, right now we are able to show people, hey, I'm just a human being like you are, I've got to take care of my kids and my family just like you, how can I help you?” PeopleTryingHelpingDreamCareKidsIdentityLike YouMy FamilyTake Care Author:Sam Rasoul
“We don't think of ourselves in Cafe Tacvba as representatives. When we go and make new material, we feel that our creations are more authentic if we think of ourselves. We don't say, "Let's be the representatives and show the moment that our society is in." But when it comes to performing and we visit other countries, like New York, many people approach us, people who are outside of their own country, and we become a referent. Our shows become this sort of ritual, and our performances become that moment of identity.” PeopleThinkingCountryMomentsCreationIdentityPerformingRitual Author:Joselo Rangel
“I'm not sure how each one of us sees ourselves in the band, but we're being part of this ritual of identity where people see Café Tacvba as something Mexican, as a representation of the Mexican. The songs, the music, the energy given in a concert. Sometimes I question that there's not much decision from our part, like there's something that leads us to this. Something beyond.” PeopleSometimesSongEnergyDecisionIdentityNot SureRitualRepresentationMexican Author:Joselo Rangel
“I always want to remain positive. In our long history, Iran has been invaded by so many other countries and despite it all, the Iranian identity has survived. People are very courageous, especially the women, who are braver than the men.” PeopleMenLongCountryIdentityHe ManCourageousIranian Author:Farah Diba
“Sometimes people base their identity on their gifting. But our identity is in Christ and ultimately has no relation to whatever gift the Spirit may have granted to us.” PeopleSometimesSpiritChristIdentityRelationGranted Author:Sam Storms
“I told myself that if I hoped to write a book that helped people to take a good look at some of the names that have been written on their nametags, I would need to do the same. I had to write Hello, My Name Is from a place of authenticity, even vulnerability, being willing to let God show me areas of my life that have been incorrectly shaped by false identities I've allowed to hang around for too long. I truly felt like, 'if this book is helping me, then it's going to help someone else.'” PeopleWritingLongBookHelpingIdentityLetting GoAuthenticityVulnerabilityShow MeHelloLooking Good Author:Matthew West
“When I saw how much the message of the song resonated with people I began to realize we're all on the same journey of discovering who we are. Why else would the bookstores be filled with self-help books? That's why I wanted to write Hello My Name Is; as a powerful reminder that when it comes to getting to the core of who we are, we simply can't help ourselves. Left to our own devices, we'll wander down a wide road filled with people slapping false identities on us at every turn. I've walked that road, and I don't want to anymore.” PeopleWritingBookHelpingSongRealizingPowerfulJourneyIdentityWanderHello Author:Matthew West
“I wouldn't have ever travelled so many of the wrong roads if I really knew God and who He really was too me and to the world. My identity would have been rooted in the truth of who He created me to be instead of rooted in figuring out who I was in all the wrong places and with many of the wrong people; especially guys.” PeopleWorldGuyIdentity Author:Cynthia Garrett
“One thing that's interesting for me is the alignment of the U.S., Israel, and India along Islamophobia and hate for an entire group of people, and India wanting to be like 'Hey U.S., we're just like you! We don't like Muslim people either!' For both parts of my identity, there's that theme of Islamophobia. That's pretty disgusting.” PeopleHateInterestingIdentityLike YouDisgustingAlignment Author:Himanshu Suri
“During an Ecstasy, LSD or mushroom experience, many people feel unbounded compassion for others and themselves. During a trip, the typical boundaries of our identity dissolve and you're able to experience your unity with all dimensions of reality simultaneously. It can be overwhelming, but it can also be a guidepost and affirmation of the soul's mission in life. A good trip can help us see and feel how perfect, beautiful and precious the world is, despite news reports to the contrary we get from CNN.” PeopleWorldHelpingRealityBeautifulPerfectCompassionIdentityUnityBoundariesEcstasyOverwhelmingAffirmationLsd Author:Alex Grey
“I do feel kind of like I have a split identity in that there's Van Jones, who has this big public role and tries to inspire millions of people to do new stuff together. And then there's just me: a pretty quiet, shy, retiring person.” PeopleTryingKindTogetherIdentityInspireQuietShyRetiring Author:Van Jones