Explore Quotes on Identity

Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.

Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born to immigrant parents, growing up relatively poor, and really living in a world where formal institutions, like banks and anywhere that you had to sign a contract, was really feared and avoided at all costs.

You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East.

I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.

The longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the Left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.

Self-discovery is so important in identity processing: who you hang out with, what clothes you wear, what shows you see. As a kid, I found out about things through friends. I would go to hardcore shows with 50 people.

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.

Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

I think having an infant causes a bit of an identity crisis.

We love stories about identity and acceptance because they're so universal.

I had people who said I was a brilliant producer but I wouldn't get on the news because I was too northern. But there was no way I was changing my accent - it is the key to my identity.

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd been told I could no longer soldier, and it felt as though no one really cared if I ever shaved again.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

'Balika Vadhu' happened to me because I worked hard in my earlier shows. So, in a way, they are responsible for building my identity.

The basis for sustainable progress is legal protections grounded in an awareness of how identity has been used to deny opportunity.

The marginalized did not create identity politics: their identities have been forced on them by dominant groups, and politics is the most effective method of revolt.

I guess I've always had a - not really thought of myself as this big star, big identity in the game.

I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confused, so I grew up listening to music from all around the world.

Lord knows one can use a distraction during divorce, and it's great to feel you are again successful on your own, with your own identity.