Top 1200 Ethnic Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough.

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.

In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton University. Like most immigrants, I was looking for a better life in a place I only half understood.

Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

Nobody does more identity politics than Donald Trump.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

I happen to be black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both, but that is not the totality of my identity.

I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as you hear it.

I feel proud to be a member of SHINee. It is a great team with a unique identity.

I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.

I would rather be single than be someone's girlfriend because that's not my identity.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don't try.

Today, the Muslim world is injured and corrupt. People who are the enemies of all Muslims are trying to cause disunity in the Islamic world by intensifying ethnic difference and separating people under names such as 'Shia and Sunni', 'Arabs and non-Arabs'.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Somebody stole my identity. Good luck using it without the medications.

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

My mother was not happy with the Afros that my friends and I emerged with - there's that crack in the book of 'Why, if a fly landed in there, he'd break his little wings trying to get out.' I was not pure dashiki, though - I was a combination of African dresses, miniskirts, tank tops, shawls, ethnic-looking earrings, sandals.

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

When Star Wars became a hit and I had a chance to make the other movies, I had to figure out a way to bring Ben back, but a lot of the issues he had to deal with were carried by Yoda. In a sense, I combined Yoda with the spirit of Ben. I wanted Ben to have some kind of influence, but I didn't want it to be a direct influence where he could help Luke. So Ben has managed to keep his identity after he became one with the Force. One of the things he was doing on Tatooine besides watching over Luke was learning how to keep his identity after he became part of the Force.

Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be. So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

I like to make things. Its been part of my identity since I was a kid.

Kolkata does not look like a Delhi or Mumbai. The city has its identity.

Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.

What you collect is the ultimate impartation of who you are. It's the archive of your identity - it's what you leave behind.

It's important that Donald Trump and what he represents - this kind of ethnic, quote, 'conservatism,' or populism - be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party, the Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape, or form.

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to abandon the idiosyncrasy of some other culture or ethnic tradition. The great achievement of this last period is that we have been slowly, sometimes reluctantly, yet steadily, learning the art of living with differences.

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

I like to make things. It's been part of my identity since I was a kid.

A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together.

You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.

Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.

Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.