Identity Quotes

Through others we become ourselves.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his own kind. The Negro wants to lose his identity because he does not know his own identity.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.

Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.

The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.

Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

With motocross I've found that passion becomes your identity and that identity breaks all barriers.

Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do.

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.