Identity Quotes

Being Nigerian is a strong part of my identity. Being American is a strong part of my identity. And there are important parts of who I am that really have nothing to do with my national connection.

On a relative level where we live, we need to have a sense of identity, otherwise we'd fall apart, wouldn't we?

I think that I'm not really preoccupied with my identity or what I am as an artist and how that can be wrapped up in medium. I just think about whatever project it is that I'm doing.

You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.

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.

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry

Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities. So there's less trolling on Facebook, for example.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.

Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.

I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport.

Your capability is constant, but how much of it you use depends upon the identity you have for yourself.

Regarding the psychological, your goal must not be "I need to lose X pounds" but "I'm going to regain my identity," whether as an athlete, a conservative, a sexual being, a together person, whatever.

For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

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.

The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.

I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.

A woman not only takes her identity and individuality for granted, but knows instinctively that the only wrong is to hurt others, and that the meaning of life is love.

When something goes into the world, you immediately begin to develop another perspective on yourself, another identity.

Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

It was like a dream to me to suddenly get into the market with that kind of movie, like La Haine. It actually created my identity as an actor, that thing.

in New York there's such diversity that there's no one central identity; everyone is marginal.

I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity.

A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.

By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.

The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak, a secular problem.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.", 2005]

Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all.

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while

When I use a word, ' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.

To know Jesus Christ, you must first understand his supernatural identity. He is God.

The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.

To realise one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth

I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.

I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.