Quotes about Identity
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
— Thomas a Kempis
Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.
— Abraham Lincoln
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
— Margaret Fuller
Men are what their mothers made them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without God man has no reference point to define himself.
— RC Sproul
Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
— George Eliot
I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.
— Ava DuVernay
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'
— Khalil Gibran
The real things about man are not his body.
— TB Joshua