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Identity Quotes by Bell Hooks
- People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
- No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the…
- Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity…
- Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact…
- Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that…
- Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined…
- Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of white supremacy has…
- All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the…
More Identity Quotes
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. — Arthur Ashe
- What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman
- I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
- Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. — Jean Baudrillard
- Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two… — Ambrose Bierce
- It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped… — Mary J. Blige
- I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or… — Edward de Bono
- We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff… — Ray Bradbury