#identity

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted. ↗

— Toby Young

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A people must have dignity and identity. ↗

— Andrew Goodman

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The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. ↗

— Richard Grant

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High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

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American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. ↗

— Bell Hooks

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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#identity #individuality #inspirational #life #self-determination

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

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I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity. ↗

— Bob Anderson

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