Identity Quotes - Page 32

Guns are part of the American identity.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

When you are so obsessed with identity politics it's not healthy because you're constantly worried about how you're perceived as opposed to your achievements. Once your identity becomes your achievement then you run into serious problems.

it is all the question of identity. ... As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains outside but when it does put a value on you then it gets inside or rather if the outside puts a value on you then all your inside gets to be outside.

Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.

My hair is my identity.

The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.

Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.

Identity politics divides us. Fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations. The other, in nuances. One draws boundaries. The other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks. Fiction is flowing water.

Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an identity as possible. It's a form of allowing them to be curious about the world.

Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness."

I just realized that I was putting my identity in things that don't matter. I think our generation especially, but our nation as well, we look at what Hollywood throws at us, and I just think some of us are confused.

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.

As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become.

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

Shave your head, wear a 'ZERO' shirt. Take away your identity. What do you have? You still have yourself.

I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

To protect one's identity is a Constitutional right.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.