Identity Quotes

"We're all stories, in the end." "You don't pass or fail at being a person." "It is not what we get but who we become, what we contribute that gives meaning to our lives" "Cogito ergo sum " "When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept." "It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you." "The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him." "The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the definitions of the white world." "Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then." "To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself" "To call someone anti-American, indeed to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination." "What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?" "Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures." "I lost my reputation and I forgot who I was" "To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another" "A man's kiss is his signature." "I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art" "But race is the child of racism, not the father" "Being an artist doesn’t start because you’re twenty-one, and it doesn’t stop because you’re fifty-one. You are who you are until the day you die." "The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography"