Quotes about Identity

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

What thou art, that thou art.

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

You are what you are by what you BELIEVE!

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

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

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

Of the unchanging things, the town in which you first saw the light is one of the most unchanging. It is always a place of monotony but at the same time, as you grow, change, go away, remember, return, and go away again, it is one of the most inexhaustibly rich places. And yet what it is is so nearly nothing, except for the dull, drab, lonely, lost objects of it, that you never know, each time you return to it, what it is that holds you so strongly to it.