I have a very strong sense of my own identity.

Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That’s not a bad thing in and of itself.

We are proving that Latinos have the power to connect with an audience on a global level without having to leave our identity behind.

I am very proud to look back and see all that I’ve been through, without forgetting my identity and always staying humble.

A society is only as great as the values that it enshrines as part of its ethos. A society is only as great as the extent to which it is willing to defend its identity.

I got to college in ’99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had Bush elected, 9/11, we were at war, so I was sort of having my political and spiritual awakening at the same time I was becoming an adult, and that’s a lot of stuff at once. I became very focused on the state of the world, and I started studying that stuff more, and I just had a real identity crisis. I couldn’t even really just study literature.

I know what my identity is.

A live-in domestic worker: “You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.”

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you

What you are will show in what you do.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself

Europeans, he said, “insist on measuring us with the yardstick that they use for themselves, forgetting that the ravages of life are not the same for all, and that the quest for our own identity is just as arduous and bloody for us as it was for them.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn’t see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I’m older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company’s identity, created several proposals intended to meet those objectives, and picked the one that did the best job.

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Adventure most unto itself The Soul condemned to be; Attended by a single Hound Its own identity.

You have to be dope; you have to find an audience and reach that audience with your identity and your message.

God’s not on our side because he hates idiots, also.

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

I’m a member of no party. I have no ideology. I’m a rationalist.

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I’m an American — you know, you grow.

You don’t get what you want in life, You get who you are.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.’

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.

Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

It is necessary to be honest and truthful in life because eventually, the truth will come to light, and people will see through the deception.

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

The eye… the point where a person’s identity is concentrated.