Quotes about Identity
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
— Albert Camus
To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude toward Afrika become positive, you'll find that your understanding of and your attitude toward yourself will also become positive.
— Malcolm X
The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.
— Marianne Williamson
Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
— Barack Obama
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
— Will Rogers
Part of what makes a human being a human being is the imperfections. Like, you wouldn't give a robot my ears. You just wouldn't do that.
— Will Smith
Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.
— William Faulkner
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
— William Golding
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?
— William Golding
The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
— William Golding
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
— William Hazlitt