His Own Identity Quotes
- The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his… — Elijah Muhammad
- 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
- Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our… — Herman Melville