I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.
Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.
Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.
The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
I wasn't unsympathetic as a defense attorney, but my strong feelings for the victims were getting in my way. I identified too much with the victim.
Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.
There is no hint that Trump wishes to engage in or to foment violence against the enemies, such as immigrants, he has identified as undermining the American way of life.
If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.
People say you get identified with a role, and you get stereotyped, but I haven't found that to be the case.
The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.
But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.
I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
I am never going to be manager of Barcelona or Arsenal because I am so identified with Tottenham and Espanyol.
Christy has not been given a fair shake. She has not been identified as a competent premier.
The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.
Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.
While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner.
All candidate moves should be identified at once and listed in one's head. This job cannot be done piecemeal, by first examining one move and then look at another.
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -
Even when I was a kid, I always sort of identified myself with Keith Richards and Slash more than the singers of the bands.
Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.
With Ronaldo, I think I've identified a few patterns; there are certain striking things. I will try to utilise this knowledge to my advantage.
For years, I've written narrators who aren't gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that's different, obviously. But I've always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man's thing.
The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.
I feel music-making is more like a psychological game; each film has its own colour that needs to be identified and addressed.
This entire business of modern war crimes, as identified by the liberal wings of politics and the media, began in Iraq and has been running downhill ever since.
Parkinson's is described as a progressive idiopathic neurodegenerative disorder, a brain disease that will worsen with time for which no cause has as yet been identified.
So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time.
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
I've identified as bisexual since I was a teenager, and if we want to achieve equality for all in our policies, we need more voices from the LGBTQ community in Congress.
A lot of kids can't identify with the things I've done and where I'm from and who I am as an individual. That's why I've tried to be a person and live my life in a way that can be identified by all cultures.
The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
We obviously can't compete with the big clubs trying to sign world class stars, but we've already identified some very good players and we'll see what happens.
Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.
Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.
Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.
We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.
When Abu Zubaydah was shown a series of photos of al Qaeda members by Soufan, he identified one of them as the operational commander of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
I wasn't remotely ambivalent about marrying the person I was marrying, but I was 35. I was deep into my adulthood, and I identified as single.
Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.
It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.
My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued.
The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.
Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.
My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.
[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
I would say, up until 'Anchorman,' I wasn't any kind of household name or anything, but I wasn't necessarily identified as much with being a comedian.
There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.
The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.
Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.
I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with the race.
Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.
The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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