Quotes about Identity

I have noticed that no other group of people in the United States truly loves America as a whole like white people do.

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being an observant Jew, but in a conceptual way, for me, they go together real well.

I am an observant Jew! Now my secret is out.

Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

There's a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

The whole point of being alive is to become the person you were intended to be, to grow out of and into yourself again and again

When you can really be who you are and find out where you fit and function from a place of comfort, then you stop working. You stop wrestling.

When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.