Quotes by Identity To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything else first. Lydia Polgreen journalistimagineidentity To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut. Lynn Emanuel identitydesirebook In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity. Lynn Collins careersidentitywanted Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison. M. John Harrison prisonagreementidentity Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation. Lysa TerKeurst situationwholeidentity The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a rebellion against the very way of things that condemned men to be imprisoned inside their own identities. MacDonald Harris hatredidentitymen Is it exciting to have a codified identity, which then gets a codified set of rights and recognitions and visibility? Are we supposed to take it from there, within the same system? Or are we trying to upset the table before we want a place at it? Maggie Nelson upsetidentitytrying Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism; you're talking about what rights are granted to what identities, under what laws, and all that is a big mix. Marriage is, among many other things, a formality to channel capital through a family. And that's why the big DOMA lawsuit was about paying too many taxes! "I wouldn't have had to pay all these taxes if Theodora had been Theo" - that was the big tagline. It's all about protecting assets. Maggie Nelson taxesgrantedidentity Our kids just aren't living in the same generation, and if they're not introduced to gender identity as a problem, they won't internalize them as a problem. Which isn't to say they won't meet bigotry in their lives. Maggie Nelson problemidentitykids We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents. Maggie O'Farrell identityhandsworld For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity. Mahmoud Darwish tensionisraelidentity Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad islamicidentitypeople You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us. Malcolm Wallop rolesgovernmentidentity We don't need a nation that has national identity cards. Malcolm Wallop identitycardsneeds I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity. Malala Yousafzai identityfaceswant Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they had some type of identity, culture, civilization before they were brought here. Malcolm X identitycivilizationpeople To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude toward Afrika become positive, you'll find that your understanding of and your attitude toward yourself will also become positive. Malcolm X understandingidentityattitude When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own. Marc Webb identity Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built. Margaret Halsey pharaohsdaughteridentity Who you are depends on who you meet. Margaret J. Wheatley dependsidentityself«3031323334353637383940»
