Our Identities Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities. — Maya Angelou
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. — Andrew Solomon
Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse. — Raquel Cepeda
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
At its heart, the quest that trans people are on is to have the same thing that straight â€” and gay â€” people have: the… — Jennifer Finney Boylan
So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind ourselves to the… — Danielle Crittenden
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to… — Spike Lee
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a… — Andrew Solomon
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the… — Truman Capote
I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families--our ancestors--are our identities. Biology is destiny. I'm… — Aimee Friedman
Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries… — Alain de Botton
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the… — Truman Capote
As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all… — John Green
In the U.S., we are free to speak our minds and to spend money without being forced to reveal our identities - except when using… — Jamais Cascio
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities. — Frank Delaney
We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told about our creation. For women, it is a… — Gioconda Belli
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal,… — John Perry Barlow

Who Wrote These Our Identities Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Our Identities Quotes as follows: