Identity Quotes · Page 65

I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.

— Fela Kuti

“Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job.”

— Benjamin DeHaven

“We don’t have to allow ourselves to be defined by the labels imposed on us. We get to define ourselves.”

— Lizzie Velásquez

I think realising that you're individual and unique is really amazing.

— Anne-Marie

I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.

— Danielle de Niese

The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.

— Edgar Cayce

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

— Baruch Spinoza

As a model, it's been really freeing to embrace my individuality and celebrate what makes us all different.

— Denise Bidot

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct…

— Raquel Cepeda

“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language…

— A.S. Byatt

“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation…

— Albert Einstein

For me, just as a social recorder of 2016, there's a new girl that emerged that can shop in between Zara and…

— Virgil Abloh

“ePatients, or "individuals who are equipped, enabled, empowered, and engaged in their health and health-care decisions."[5, 6]”

— Rohit Bhargava

I want people to know that when they put on my Very collection, we have truly thought of them and considered their…

— Judi Love

To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally…

— Maureen Howard

I want people to see my color and my culture written all over me, because I am proud of the skin I'm…

— Luvvie Ajayi

I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and…

— Raoul Peck

“You can build something new, one person, one relationship, one meal at a time. You can build friendships instead of watering the…

— Diana Oestreich

The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his…

— Laurens van der Post

“I Have Vanished In the early morning, A lover asked her beloved, “Do you love me more than yourself?” “More than myself?…

— Rumi

When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that,…

— Anonymous

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion.…

— John Updike

“As soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different,…

— Michel Foucault

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

— Djuna Barnes

Through the blind fire of achievement we often lose ourselves in the blaze.

— Anonymous

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

— Charles Buxton

“The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.”

— Kim Askew

My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.

— Juliette Lewis

Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.

— Robert Breault

As a performer, the thing you want the most is to be your authentic self.

— Yvonne Orji

Claim your divine, glorious selfhood. Think it, talk it, live it and it will demonstrate itself in your life.

— Emmet Fox

Character is who you are under pressure, not who you are when everything's fine.

— Ritu Ghatourey

All young people, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, need someone who's got their back.

— James Lecesne

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

— Frantz Fanon

I'm an individualist. I want to have full control. It would be annoying for me if I didn't.

— Iga Swiatek

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

— Maxwell Maltz

I started my own zine, and riot grrrl became a huge part of my identity.

— Kate Nash

“And he reflected that one cannot completely become his own self until one is completely among others.”

— Milan Kundera

This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.

— Francis Chan