Identity Quotes
"There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something they're not"
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I'd hate that."
"When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living."
"The ego is not master in its own house."
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not"
"When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself."
"I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labelled."
"The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!"
"Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?"
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
"We know what we are but know not what we may be."
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
"I think that you might be so sure that you're one in a million, that sometimes you forget that out there you're just one in 11."
"Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world."
"I said I was ‘The Greatest,’ I never said I was ‘The Smartest!’"
"When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me, is me."
"I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."
"I had to organize things. So I created the ‘Black Mamba.’ So Kobe has to deal with these issues, all the personal challenges. The Black Mamba steps on the court and does what he does. I’m destroying everybody that steps on the court."