He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.
What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.
To accept duality is to earn identity.
For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.
Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.
Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.
The white blouse can be light and floating, impeccable and austere, sumptuous and all-enveloping, tight and close-fitting. It rises up to frame the face. It sculpts the body by transforming itself into a second skin. Imputed with glamour and poetry, freedom and impetuousness, the prim white shirt turns out to have a thousand identities.
Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?
Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.
The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.
The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.
Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.
To protect one's identity is a Constitutional right.
When something goes into the world, you immediately begin to develop another perspective on yourself, another identity.
Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It's not just creating a hit show - it's building shows to back up that hit show; it's creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.
Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.
There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2. 0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.
Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.
I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.