Quotes about Identity
They'll not blame me. They'll not object to me. They'll not mind what I do, if it's wrong. I'm only Mr. Dick.
— Charles Dickens
I remember him as something left behind upon the road of life—as something I have passed, rather than have actually been—and almost think of him as of someone else.
— Charles Dickens
I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!
— Charles Dickens
My flesh and blood...when it rises against me, is not my flesh and blood. I discard it.
— Charles Dickens
Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind!
— Charles Dickens
It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.
— Charles Dickens
I'm wrong in these clothes. I'm wrong out of the forge, the kitchen, or off th' meshes.
— Charles Dickens
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To
— Charles Dickens
We must be our own, before we can be another's.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are God's art. We are God's poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.
— Gregory Dickow
We give our mistakes too much power. Instead, see a mistake for what it is. It is not the real you… You are more valuable than the opinion others have of you.
— Gregory Dickow
My message to blacks was: "It is time to stop hating who you are. God created you black—love yourself, love your hands and face, big nose and lips, for that is the only way you can love God. Blackness is God's gift to humanity.
— James H. Cone