Top 1200 Racial Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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

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

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

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

You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that's a dead end.

Nobody does more identity politics than Donald Trump.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

While everyone has racial bias, I reserve the word 'racist' to describe the bias that white people have - our collective bias is backed by institutional power.

The more I've been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can't really pick it apart. It's all intertwined.

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

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

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

To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

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

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

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

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

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The reason to have more racial diversity on any team is because it's helpful to have different perspectives on any issue. And I also believe that. It's easier said than done, unfortunately.

In my mind, this is an 'and,' it's not 'either' 'or' or 'but.' Yeah, you can feel a certain way about honoring the flag and the country, and feel that there needs to be some significant changes in the system, regarding racial inequalities.

I think we just have to look at all the ways in which we are violating the Earth, each other, economic violence, racial violence, environmental violence - where we are dominating and not cooperating .

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

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

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

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

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