“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.” PeopleYearsPastMovingRaceGroupsIdentityVarietyMannersSouthernAccentsYankeesBrainwashingBrainwashedConfederateEthnic GroupsBrainwashYankee Fans Author:John Shelton Reed
“This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.” KnowsRealRealitySeemsPastRealizingEventsIdentityFunctionAriseDependentRemarkableParadoxPrincipalFuture Events Book:All the King's Men Source: All the King's Men
“Where there has been racial hatred, it must be ended. Where there has been tribal animosity, it will be finished. Let us not dwell upon the bitterness of the past. I would rather look to the future, to the good new Kenya, not to the bad old days. If we can create this sense of national direction and identity, we shall have gone a long way to solving our economic problems.” IfsWayLooksLongHas BeensProblemPastGoneEconomicIdentityHatredFinishedBitternessLong WayOld DaysKenyaAnimosityEconomic ProblemsLooking To The Future Author:Jomo Kenyatta
“Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.” PeoplePainPastWomenIdentityPast Pain Author:Laura Schlessinger
“The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.” WayPersonsImportantSelfBigsPastIdentityNarrativeMake SenseOur PastConstructsPast And PresentSelf IdentityHope For The Future Author:Peg O'Connor
“Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.” TodayPastFormPrinciplesFashionIdentityBasesAffectedResurrectionRelevanceAbolitionRecyclingActualityRetroRecurrence Book:Symbolic Exchange and Death Source: Symbolic Exchange and Death
“We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different ... self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from.” KnowsShouldMeanImportantDifferentSelfPastNationsIdentityOughtCulinaryDishesHistoricSelf Confident Author:Tom Jaine
“Sometimes we say we want an end to hate or racism or sexism. But we all participate in keeping these structures alive. If everyone decided to relinquish the past what would happen to people who feel that there hasn't been proper atonement made to them? And what happens to the person who feels that the constant atonement is their identity?” PeopleIfsWantFeelsPersonsMadeEndsSometimesHappensPastHateAliveIdentityRacismDecidedStructureConstantSexismAtonement Author:Chris Abani
“To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light_ seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding event. Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up through fame or wealth or conquest.” ThinkingWorldNeedsSelfSeemsActionPastWealthBrainEventsIdentityFameOrdinaryConcernedAspectConnectionsSpeedConquestTruestSleepyCrippledInstantaneousSpeed Of Light Author:Eben Alexander
“The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect Kristiana Kahakauwila's intimate but expansive vision of a Hawai'i forged from the collisions of past and present, here and there. Her protagonists are as richly distinctive as the pidgin they speak, and yet each struggles profoundly with identity-that negotiation between ourselves and the world, which is at once Hawaiian, American, universally and compellingly human.” WorldHumansStoriesPastSpeakPleasureVisionStruggleIdentityInventionTraditionalNarrativeIntimateParadiseFormalNegotiationHere And ThereDistinctiveProtagonistsPast And PresentCollisionForgedHawaiians Author:Peter Ho Davies
“Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?” WorldYearsHas BeensStatesHomePastSufferingMillionsIdentityInjusticeAround The WorldCampsPalestinianRefugeeExileRefugee CampsPalestinian Refugees Author:Ismail Haniyeh