Identity quotes
Welcome to our collection of Identity quotes! Our identities are central to who we are as individuals, shaping our beliefs, values, and actions. Exploring the concept of identity can be a deeply personal and thought-provoking journey. Whether you are searching for inspiration, validation, or simply seeking to delve into the complexities of human existence, you will find a wide range of quotes that shed light on the intricacies of identity.
Within this category, you will encounter quotes from esteemed philosophers, authors, artists, and leaders who have reflected on the nature of identity throughout history. These quotes touch upon various aspects, such as personal identity, cultural identity, gender identity, and the intersectionality of multiple identities. Each quote offers a glimpse into the diverse perspectives and experiences that shape our understanding of who we are.
As you navigate through the pages of Identity quotes, you may come across profound insights, thought-provoking questions, and relatable anecdotes. You might discover words that resonate deeply within you or challenge your preconceived notions. We encourage you to take your time, reflect on the quotes, and engage in introspection as you explore the rich tapestry of human identity.
Whether you are seeking quotes to ignite self-discovery, to explore the complexities of social identities, or simply for inspiration, we hope this collection of Identity quotes provides you with a meaningful journey of reflection, understanding, and celebration of the diverse identities that shape our world.
Kathryn Stockett
— NovelistLord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space.
Alicia Machado
— ActressI think being beautiful is only one aspect of your life.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorNot to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
Sofia Vergara
— ActressIf I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked.
Antonio Machado
— PoetWhat the poet is searching for
is not the fundamental I
but the deep you.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsIn every queen there's a touch of floozy.
Rebecca Godfrey
— Intriguing Author & Investigative JournalistI saw this girl dancing, and I moved closer to her because I liked the way she looked, haughty and sexy but not in a slutty way, and when I got closer to her, I realized she was me and I was looking at my reflection in the mirror. I looked like the kind of girl I'd always wanted to befriend.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerThe sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup....' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London, that's a lot of soup walking around.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestWhen the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. I seem to transform myself into the opponent, and every movement he makes as well as every thought he conceives are felt as if they were my own and I intuitively...know when and how to strike him.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI'm afraid I go through the same thing all the time.
Daniel Craig
— Iconic James Bond ActorThe idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
Ricky Martin
— MusicianFor many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorGiger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostEvery ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be. So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
Neil Patrick Harris
— American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television hostYou can't just put gay in a little gay box anymore.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.
Pope John XXIII
— Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in 1963It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanI might have been born just plain white trash / but Fancy was my name.
Bipasha Basu
— Indian actress and modelI don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to be remembered?' I tell them I don't want to be remembered! I'm not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm not that kind of a person. And I'm not brash about it; it's just the way I am.
Regina Belle
— American singer-songwriterWhen I went into gospel, I didn't think it was respectful to still do R&B and gospel at the same time. It is not because of anything written or the church going off on me. It was more of Regina putting stipulations on herself and stating where she couldn't go because she got this calling in her life.
Craig Stone
— English footballerThe question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what.
Niecy Nash
— American actress, comedian and television hostPeople recognize me from everything and as soon as I think I know where they know me from, I'm always wrong.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorEverybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.
Glennon Melton
— American author and activistYou are not a mess. You are a feely person in a messy world.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
— British PoetIn the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
Alber Elbaz
— Israeli fashion designerIf you change a woman's look, you change her persona.
Alesha Dixon
— British MusicianI'd be lying if I did not say that being a woman of colour is something I am always mindful or aware of.
Alex Borstein
— American actor, comedian, writer and producerI've always felt like an outsider as a woman. I've never really felt wholly comfortable in a women's world or woman's things. I've never been conventionally pretty or thin or girly-girl. Never felt dateable. All I've seen on TV has never felt like mine.
Adwoa Aboah
— British ModelI love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
— Mexican DirectorActors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.
Agyness Deyn
— English ModelFashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
— American actor, producer, retired professional wrestler and former American football and Canadian football playerThe single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.
Kathryn Stockett
— NovelistBaby Girl," I say. "I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?" She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. "To wipe my bottom good when I'm done?" "No, baby, the other one. About who you are.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorWhoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterAny life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
Sofia Vergara
— ActressI think I'm going to be stereotyped forever, but I'm not scared of being stereotyped.
Sarah Vowell
— AuthorAssassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
Antonio Machado
— PoetI. Don't trace out your profile-- forget your side view-- all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren't.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsWhy is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerThem as counts counts moren them as dont count
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestUntil we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesI have to force myself to get angry. But I want to show the world that there's another side to me, that I am capable of deep, deep anger and fury. They better watch out for how I'm treated.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostI was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was.
Neil Patrick Harris
— American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television hostAs actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanI think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.
Craig Stone
— English footballerWithout the sleeping bag I'm just somebody up early in the morning, sitting under a tree. With the sleeping bag I'm nobody up early, sitting under a tree: a slight, but important difference in how I’ll be perceived.
Niecy Nash
— American actress, comedian and television hostI was always funny, but I didn't know being funny was a gift.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorYou know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.
Adwoa Aboah
— British ModelBecause I would be around so many people in the fashion industry, there's this kind of dialogue. People would always say, 'Oh your daughter is so beautiful. Is she a model?' And it was so strange for me to hear because I felt so not beautiful inside.
Kathryn Stockett
— NovelistI look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years. And I swear I see, down inside, the woman she gone grow up to be. She is tall and straight. She is proud. She got a better haircut. And she is remembering the words I put in her head. Remembering as a full-grown woman.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorWhat you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterTime is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Sofia Vergara
— ActressI'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent - but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.
Antonio Machado
— PoetThere is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerMe, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa.
Daniel Craig
— Iconic James Bond ActorI've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostI'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
Kathryn Stockett
— Novelist...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorA writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
Kathryn Stockett
— NovelistI may not remember my name or what country I live in, but you and that pie is something I will never forget.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWhen I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself
Kathryn Stockett
— NovelistWhen you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
Kathryn Stockett
— NovelistHer nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she been telling people she Mae Mobley Two. When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorI suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorTruths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorWe are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.