Identity Quotes
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I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.
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I think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of the culture, and it's the name of the identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls.
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Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies.
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The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.
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I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.
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While all doctors treat diseases, neurosurgeons' work is the crucible of identity. Every operation on the brain is, by necessity, a manipulation of the substance of our selves.
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I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.
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The 'old' Internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb. Sure, Google can crawl Facebook's 'public pages,' but those represent a tiny fraction of the 'pages' on Faceboo, and are not informed by the crucial signals of identity and relationship which give those pages meaning.
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I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.
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In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.
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To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want.
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Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
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The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.
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In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.
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If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.
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Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.
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Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.
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Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his "angel"--with whom he must be reunited if he is to rise above his fragmentary identity as a worldling and become whole, as he is (and always has been) in the mind of God.
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This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
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I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity.
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It's not just that I'm a woman of color running for office. It's the way that I ran. It's the way that my identity formed my methods.
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Especially when we're dealing with issues of race, culture, identity, and history, the time has passed for the 'white savior' holding the black person's hand through their own history.
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The more power you can find in yourself and your own surety and identity is actually the best output that you could give to your friends in relationships.
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I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat.
