Identity Quotes
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Even with the beauty stories we put out, we saw there was an opportunity to address issues of representation, identity, self-expression. We created the community that we wanted to have at 'Teen Vogue.' We were willing to lose some to have more.
Elaine Welteroth -
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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Some women facing 'honour' crimes require relocation far outside the reaches of their extended families and changes of identity to escape detection.
Deeyah Khan -
When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.
Peter Straub -
Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
Park Chan-wook -
A highly visible, shared identity can help bring activists from different backgrounds together with a common sense of purpose and push for change more effectively - from the global stage to within their own communities and families.
Efua Dorkenoo -
There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
R. J. Cutler -
Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
Beatrice Webb -
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
Nadine Gordimer -
There's an identity thing that goes on where you spend so much time caring for your child that, after a year or so, you have to shake it off and go, 'Who am I?'
Kristian Bush Sugarland -
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
Haile Selassie -
Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
Harold Brodkey
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They've almost created a different identity with a different group of guys in a very quick turnaround. They've made it look very simple. You've got to give them a lot of credit, not just their coaching staff but their players, for buying into that and doing the things that they've done to be so successful.
Dan Monson -
One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
Zadie Smith -
I've always been intrigued by questions of perception and identity-building, specifically how teens and young adults define themselves within their communities.
Keith Maitland -
I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.
Kitty Kelley -
I was so bad in school that acting gave me some kind of identity and gave me a home.
Chris Messina -
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
Tariq Ali
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For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your family's wealth.
Jamie Johnson -
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
A. R. Ammons -
I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
Sachin Tendulkar -
I never let the media dictate my identity, so the fact that I'm a size 14 or a size 2 or a size 8 or a size 4, I kind of rock and roll. It doesn't matter to me.
Katy Mixon