Top 1200 Ethnic Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.

Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, are apart. Then they have the armed groups. Everybody's got a private army.

[Donald] Trump, he - you know, buy American, buy American, anti-free trade, and got big cheers. They're waving Russian flags, probably partly as a joke. But, still, the party has become an ethnic nationalist party.

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.

I've always been interested in androgyny and a lot of my work explores gender identity.

I speak to black and ethnic coaches who ring me, or write to me, for some advice. There is a frustration from a lot of young, very able, black coaches to find that pathway that will get them into full-time positions.

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.

He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor.

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain.

Massimo Vignelli designed a timeless, elegant, and powerful identity for American Airlines.

To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style

I think identity issues have their place in the workplace, less so personal behaviors.

I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.

There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.

It is great filming in London. It's difficult, but it looks good. It has its own identity.

I wouldn't say I am practicing Muslim - I don't go to the mosque or anything, but it's part of my identity.

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.

My identity is that of a Pakistani player. And nothing is more important than that for me.

People just think Africa is this one thing. So if you're from Nigeria, then you're the same as somebody from Kenya; not realizing that within Nigeria, right, we have 250 different ethnic groups, right? Two hundred and fifty different languages.

Each driver has their own identity and from one week to another, normally it stays the same.

The cultural pressure for a middle-class Chinese-American to walk, talk and act like a lower-class thug from Chinatown is nil. The same can be said of Jews, or of any other ethnic group. But in black America the folly is so commonplace it fails to attract serious attention.

You have to know your identity. It's the biggest thing in wanting to pursue creative dreams.

I managed to make an identity as a playback singer in the industry; I thought I'll never be able to do that.

My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

I'm not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that's a dead end.

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

I think it's the most wonderful thing in the world to have an identity, something the audience can remember you for.

When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real worth is. So it dissolves.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

History is for all of us to discuss. All history is our common heritage to discuss and analyze. The founding of the state of Israel, for example, based on ethnic cleansing is there for us all to discuss.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

As I have always said, an artist's existence and identity are only because of the audience.

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

I think that every country presents its own particular challenges, different cultures, different histories, different religions, different people. And different ethnic make-ups in those countries present different challenges.