Top 1200 Ethnic Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

What "Make America Great" means is it doesn't mean race, and it doesn't mean gender, and it doesn't mean sexual orientation, and it doesn't mean anything identity politics related that seems to appeal to the Democrat Party. It's about a culture. It's about an identity. It's about an idea - the American idea, the American ideal.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.

Identity is a very difficult thing in the theatre. As an actor said to me one day, 'What are we doing today?' when we were doing a workshop. And I said, 'Oh, just be yourself'. And he said to me, 'I don't know who that is, I'm an actor'. And I begin to realise in fact that we seek identity because we're told we should have one, but I wonder whether it's necessary.

I kind of have found my identity through the music, through the roots music of North Carolina, and kind of realized that that's my identity as a North Carolinian.

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

I happened to get interested in jewelry when an ethnic tendency was reawakening in fashion.

Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a believer, I am someone who has been delivered from the dominion of sin and who therefore is free and motivated to fight against the remnants of sin in my heart. You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity – you are in Christ

In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is in the choices that shape these actions. Because the dispositions formed by previous choices can be modified in turn by present behaviour, this identity as choice-maker is fluid, its experience alterable. While it is affected by the past, it can also break free of the past.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.

Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.

Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?

We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.

I think we have cultural bias and practice some ethnocentrism when it comes to ethnic food in America.

We're the only ethnic group that says, 'Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.'

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

To talk about the superiority of an ethnic group on the basis of some points of difference on IQ tests is idiotic.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

Our flag is our identity, and we can't disrespect or let anyone else disrespect our identity.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body. To be more precise, they derive their identity from the I-thought that they erroneously attach to the mental image or concept of their body. Equating the physical sense-perceived body that is destined to grow old, wither and die with 'I' always leads to suffering sooner or later.

While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church, equally mistaken, encourage woman to find her identity in her roles as wife and mother rather than in her status as a person in Christ, a daughter complete in Him.

Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function. I'm a spiritual teacher when somebody comes to me and some teaching happens, but the moment they leave I'm no longer a spiritual teacher. If I carry the identity of spiritual teacher, it will cause suffering.

Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.

I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most vicious resistance to blackness that whiteness is able to throw up. I engage in a lot of intellectual combat with supremacists and with the predicate of white supremacy and white indifference to black identity, and brown and red and yellow identity too, for that matter.

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

We can feel in Poland a kind of phantom pain for lost multi-ethnic territories.

For me, God's country is sirens and subways and all kinds of ethnic groups trying to cross the street all at once.

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.

Living in Constanta under communism, we did not have the ethnic diversity that I then encountered in America.

I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.

Merely implying bias due to a judge's ethnic heritage is wrong as a matter of principle and legally illegitimate.

My past was always there. And I always understood that I was adopted. It wasn't like a massive issue to me. But identity was an issue. I knew that I was Indian, but I didn't really know much about myself, really. I mean, I really disassociated myself from what happened in the past to present. But, it was affecting in regards to identity.

Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.

The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.

Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.

I'd...bet enthusiasm for 'ethnic cleansing' will wane if only sticks and rocks are available for the warring parties.

Perception, after all, is not simply a matter of what you believe about yourself, it all encompasses what others think about you, and what has been thought of you historically. I say we can pay attention to those other dimensions of our identity - class, gender, sexual orientation, geographical region - while at the same time understanding how our historically produced racial identity continues to serve, or undercut us.

Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.

I don't endorse people that bash judges based on his ethnic heritage.

Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as roles disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior.

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

It's a shame that ethnic minorities aren't getting a crack at different types of roles. There needs to be a bit of a change.

We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality.

I welcome an arms race for minority ethnic voters. This will ensure we all raise our game.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

The only thing that said 'Lando Calrissian' was ethnic was his looks.

Know whose you are and you'll know who you are. Walk in your authentic identity as determined by your Creator. And, before you try to live without instructions as to what your identity really is read the owner's manual daily; the Bible. It's the best advice anyone ever gave me. Read it and it will change your life for the better, forever.

The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

I feel like I spent so much time trying to understand my identity and my identity as an artist. But when all is said and done, at this age, I feel the most like I felt when I was 11. And all those talents I had when I was 11 and 12 - I'm letting them sort of happen again. I can't speak for men, but for women - we go back to a kind of pre-adolescent state when we were superfree and supercool.