Quotes about Identity
So we are not sinners because we commit this or that sin, but we commit them because we are sinners first.
- Martin Luther
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
[W]hen you first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are), and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro... when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness" - then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody-I don't know who or what-maybe myself. I have feelings some days when there are scenes with a lot of responsiblity, and I'll wish, gee, if only I would have been a cleaning woman.
- Marilyn Monroe
Do not wish to be anything except what you are.
- Francis de Sales
He [Arthur Miller] wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
- Marilyn Monroe
There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
- Charles Dickens
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy
- Margaret Fuller
When a caterpillar looks in the mirror, he sees a butterfly.
- Matshona Dhliwayo