Example Quote by Patrisse Cullors

“People showed up as their whole selves: Muslim, queer, black, female—all aspects of their identity were celebrated.”

— The Women's March Organizers

“black identities are diverse and complex…”

— bell hooks

You bring up identity politics and I think that this is really causing a divide in the American left where we're rallying too much…

— Sam Rasoul

It's actually OK to be unique and have your own contributions, to celebrate what it means to be black, how we've survived and thrived…

— Alicia Garza

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

— Henry Golding

As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities…

— Indya Moore

People have multiple identities.

— Samuel P. Huntington

I'm a woman and a lesbian and a feminist and a Jew and so many other things, and those identities are a source of…

— Sally Kohn

“What all of this suggests is that we need a more complex understanding of identities. If we identify on the basis of race, class,…

— Arlene Stein

When we talk of identity, we often think of groups such as black Muslim lesbians in wheelchairs. This is because identity only seems to…

— Grayson Perry

“...we have to be aware of the power and importance of organizing not just around identity, but the materiality of daily life, which still,…

— Manning Marable

I happen to be black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both, but that is not the totality of my identity.

— Ayanna Pressley