Quotes on Identity

Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.

Hate crimes are different from other crimes. They strike at the heart of one's identity - they strike at our sense of self, our sense of belonging. The end result is loss - loss of trust, loss of dignity, and in the worst case, loss of life.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

I always knew I was destined for greatness.

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.

There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself. (emphasis added)

Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style

My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

Each nation has an identity and _x000D_ destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, _x000D_ Hindu is its identity and religion is its _x000D_ way of working

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have _x000D_ established my identity.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache.