Quotes about Identity
A surgeon in charge of my surgery rotation said that he knew who I was but that he was going to treat me as if I was normal. I sincerely thanked him and told him I would try to act that way.
— Mark Vonnegut
A man who have not discovered something he will die for, is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am what I am because of who we all are.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise certain basic questions about our national character.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of 'nobodiness'—then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
you will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile,laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow, so that when he had no money for food, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than a black man.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Why is it that, in spite of all the mirrors in the world, no one really knows what he looks like?
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I wasn't cute or passive enough to be femme, and I wasn't mean or tough enough to be butch. I was given a wide berth. Non-conventional people can be dangerous, even in the gay community.
— Audre Lorde