Quotes by Identity The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve? Victor Burgin politicalidentitydoe I really do try to let the identity or voice inside come out. Victoria Legrand voiceidentitytrying When something goes into the world, you immediately begin to develop another perspective on yourself, another identity. Victoria Legrand perspectiveidentityworld I've realized that a lot of people come to me because of what's called identity. In the sense of "he's like me" - more like identification. Identity is one of those nonsense words: it's been used so much it doesn't mean anything. As individuals, we don't want to stay the same; identity means sameness, and we don't want to be the same, we want to keep changing, we want to grow, we want to become something else. We want to evolve. So when people come to me, it's about resonance - it goes back to that word. Vijay Iyer identitymeanpeople I'm what they call a 'non-black person of color': NBPOC. It's easy and seductive and common to mobilize around these identity issues, but often that's done at the expense of considering structural anti-blackness. That puts everything in a slightly different light for me, especially because of where I am and why - where I am in the world of the arts, where I live, in Harlem - and the music that I've been able to make, whom I've been able to make it with, who has nurtured me. It's not just about solidarity. It's actually about debt. Vijay Iyer seductiveidentityart Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity. Vijay Seshadri identitystruggleself It was like a dream to me to suddenly get into the market with that kind of movie, like La Haine. It actually created my identity as an actor, that thing. Vincent Cassel kindidentitydream My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it. Vivienne Westwood clothesidentitycharacter in New York there's such diversity that there's no one central identity; everyone is marginal. Vivian Gornick diversityidentitynew-york Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite material identity. The classifications, the categories, the stereotypes, and the images are on one side, and the material pictures, statues, texts, and so forth are on the other. W. J. T. Mitchell stereotypeidentitysides I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity. W. Kamau Bell dadimportantidentity The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia. Walker Percy identityageloss It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood. Wally Olins significantidentitylittles When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me. Walt Whitman identitylonghands A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots. Walt Whitman simpleidentitypeople That is what we must do when we fully know the purposefulness of life - live it gloriously by living it ecstatically. We can live it ecstatically only as we know the ecstatic nature of God and become like Him through being continually inspired by communion with Him. To become like Him, we must become aware of our identity with Him. We must know Him as Creator of all that is, and in so doing know ourselves as creator of all that is. Walter Russell inspirednatureidentity Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British, and when we were colonized and violently reshuffled, we had to decide who we were again. We couldn't rest on the stories and the cultures of our great-grandparents. Wangechi Mutu grandparentidentitycountry Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis. Warren Farrell midlifemalesidentity If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a good way to do it. And if you're wealthy, you can do it with a very expensive It bag, or whether it's Vuitton or Valentino at the moment, and it's a way to signal to one another, We're part of this tribe. Wednesday Martin conformityidentitytrying What is your trouble? Mistaken identity. Wei Wu Wei mistakentroubleidentity«5354555657585960616263»
