Identity Quotes - Page 9

• Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

  Alistair Cooke

  Trying, Different, Television

  Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Pride, Men, Males

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• Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

  Mary McCarthy

  Men, Doe, Literature

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Knowledge, Men, Forget

  Commencement Speech by Anna Quindlen, www.mtholyoke.edu. 1999.

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• 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.

  Maureen Howard

  Self, Giving, Stories

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• This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be. And this societal conflict appears to be one that many share.

  Justin Simien

  Race, Mass Culture, White

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• Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Acorns, Fullness, Oaks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

  Martial

  Lasts, Resolve

  "Epigrams".

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• If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.

  John Cheever

  Sorry, Fog, Essence

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

  Aesop

  No Friends, One Thing

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.25, Lulu Press, Inc

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• What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

  James A. Baldwin

  America, Heroic, Myth

  "For the Love of God — and Country" by Bryan Berghoef, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2013.

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• You see in others who you are.

  Bernard Malamud

  Who You Are

  Bernard Malamud (2017). “Dubin's Lives”, p.146, Random House

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• I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.

  Lee Iacocca

  Guy, Supposed To Be

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• Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

  Jose Marti

  Wine, Bitter

  "US and Cuba keep their distance" by Stephen Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2009.

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• Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Lying, Fixed, Certain

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.34, Luigi Pirandello

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• There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, People, Done

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 59, 1799.

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• Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Healing

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1999). “The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community”, J P Tarcher

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• I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Oneness, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.75, A&C Black

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• If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Errors, Years, Confusion

  "The total library : non-fiction 1922-1986". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1999.

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• The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.

  Walker Percy

  Loss, Age, Patient

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.165, Open Road Media

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• Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Drama, Mind, Tragedy

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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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• To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

  Erica Jong

  Husband, Names, Wife

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 16, 2012

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• Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside, just a living fire. And once you have found your living fire, you will know all the joys and all the ecstasies that human consciousness is capable of.

  Rajneesh

  Fire, Personality, Meditation

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• Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.

  William Wordsworth

  Son, Cities, Confusion

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.698, Wordsworth Editions

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