A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out…

I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves.

— Justin Simien

In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries…

— Zachary Quinto

You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East.

— Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

Family over friends, because real friends are family

— Anonymous

I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We…

— S. I. Hayakawa

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own…

— John Ciardi

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:…

— Orson Scott Card

“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s…

— Dada Bhagwan

“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected…

— C.S. Lewis

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply…

— Sharon Maas

“Self-realization or self-knowing or awakening is about knowing/ becoming conscious of our true nature and living in harmony with the universe in an ever…

— Thomas Vazhakunnathu

“There are some things that one individual can do for another, and there are some things that one race can do for another. But,…

— Booker T. Washington

“Why were there no words that spoke positively about being concerned about the self? Why was there only negative connotation in terms like "selfish",…

— A.J. Dalton