Identity Quotes - Page 22

• 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.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Struggle, Self, Way

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Real, Media, Ideas

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• I'm not attached to a certain scene. There was certain music - and techno was a part of it - that really formulated something for me, that really was a direct connection to what I experienced in my life. Going to parties and listening to techno at home helped form my musical identity. And that changed throughout my life.

  Pantha du Prince

  Party, Home, Listening

  "Pantha du Prince’s Bell Hooks". Interview with Nathan Reese, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2013.

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• You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.

  Steve "Lips" Kudlow

  Running, Trying, Band

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Who you are depends on who you meet.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Self, Depends, Who You Are

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2006). “Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World”, p.88, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The whole point about thinking brilliantly is about knowing your identity and the favor you have in Christ

  Graham Cooke

  Thinking, Knowing, Favors

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• Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

  Lady Hester Stanhope

  Essence, Vain, Form

  Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.14

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• I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go​, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and my books are the first items I pack into a suitcase. I am the person who family and friends call when they need a book recommendation or cannot remember who wrote Heidi. My identity as a person is so entwined with my love of reading and books that I cannot separate the two.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Reading, Two

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• The average person is unaware that he or she is living out a negative destiny according to his or her past (childhood) programming, preserving his or her familiar identity, and, in the process, pushing love away. On an unconscious level, many people sense that if they did not push love away, the whole world, as they have experienced it, would be shattered and they would not know who they were.

  Robert W. Firestone

  Past, Destiny, Average

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• Your identity, self-esteem, and awareness of your ego lay the groundwork for your life. How you conduct yourself with others, and whether you have the strength to make your way without needing to ask for another's permission, depends on how well you succeed at the many challenges that awaken your need to take charge of who you are.

  Caroline Myss

  Self Esteem, Ego, Challenges

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential”, p.211, Harmony

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• I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

  Catherine Opie

  Culture, Construction, Masculinity

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• The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

  Alfred Korzybski

  Negative, Fundamentals, Denial

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.10, Institute of GS

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• Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

  Chris Hedges

  Evil, Injustice, Cruelty

  Chris Hedges (2011). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.15, Nation Books

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• When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Black History, Underdog

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• I wasn't looking to be an Indian brass band, but to be a band that reflected my complete identity as an American. The America I was born and raised in intersected with people of all ethnicities and beliefs and that, coupled with my parents' instilling of good values, made me the individual I am now. Within Red Baraat, there are varied musical backgrounds and personalities and that lends itself to many great thoughts and ideas; it's what makes social science, or more precisely, social interaction so interesting to me.

  Sunny Jain

  People, Interesting, Personality

  "With Red Baraat, Always a Dhol Moment". Interview With Emily Loftis, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2011.

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• We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables — the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers — to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

  Jane Elliott

  Country, Vegetables, Differences

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• You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Thinking, Christ, Amnesia

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• Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

  Emily Bronte

  Death, Sleep

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.96, The Floating Press

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• No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.

  Ronnie Spector

  Back In The Day, Choreography

  "Ronnie's spectre". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.

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• To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

  James A. Baldwin

  Way, Achieve, Asks

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• [Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral.

  Coleman Barks

  True Identity, Trying, Vastness

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• A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

  John Keats

  Poetry, Literature, Body

  John Keats (1994). “The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?

  David Richo

  Fear, Connections, Architect

  David Richo (2014). “When Love Meets Fear: How to Become Defense-less and Resource-full”, p.39, Paulist Press

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• Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.

  Henry Roth

  Book, Creativity, Personality

  1987 'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.

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• A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

  William Saroyan

  Men, Awareness, Geography

  "Inhale and Exhale". Book by William Saroyan, 1936.

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