Identity Quotes - Page 39

I lost my public self, or had it stolen. In a way, it was a form of identity theft.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not that of the brand. I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root. So through essays and short stories I began exploring some of these things.

Time is the enemy of identity

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white identity that's been rendered invisible and neutral because it's seen as objective and universal. As a result, we don't pay attention to how whiteness is one among many racial identities, and that identity politics have been here since the get-go.

The demand for racial (and sexual) justice gets reduced to politics of identity - and excoriating the so-called perpetrators of the identity politics.

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

The demonizing of black identity is much more of a global phenomenon than many would like to admit. I've traveled abroad extensively, and it's hard to ignore the subordination of darker peoples to lighter peoples the world around.

The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of their ethical identity, is to surrender the white innocence that prevents them from being fully mature.

Those who become hyperpolyglots are those who meet two criteria. One, they are exposed to language material. Two, they undertake learning languages as a mission as well as acquiring the personal identity as a language learner.I describe the "neural tribe theory" of hyperpolyglots, arguing that they possess an atypical neurology that is selected by some environments and not others; presumably, there have always been humans walking around with that set of neurological traits or factors, only some of whom actually use those things for languages.

To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the path seems effortless. These songs may well be early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, but also for the identity survival of a culture.

For me, my work is pretty much a lot of my identity. I mean I live to work, basically. With money I'm able to earn I don't put into clothes especially or things like that. I use it as a way of buying time to work. That's how I see money for me. It represents time to be by myself working on these ideas. So in that sense, the work is kind of a surrogate religion, maybe not so surrogate, maybe it is part religion.

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

I'm really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything's going to be great.

I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.