Identity Quotes

"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others." "In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate" "I exist as I am, that is enough" "The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much and forgetting that you are special too" "The most common form of despair is not being who you are." "Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are" "The greatest hazard of all, losing oneself, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all" "Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be." "I've known rivers" "A man is the sum of his misfortunes." "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love" "Who am I to judge" "We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything" "No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true" "You are the sum of all the moments of your life." "Dreams are the touchstones of our character" "Every man's memory is his private literature" "If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?" "For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human" "I want my careless song to strike no minor key no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song the fusion of the South the blood of all the races"