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I am instinctively wary of identity politics. Ultimately, no two black men are the same, any more than two white men are the same.
When you invest in something for so long and you stop and have nothing to fill that space, it can be more of a crisis of identity.
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.
If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations.
The liberation cannot be reached but by means of the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit.
The basis for sustainable progress is legal protections grounded in an awareness of how identity has been used to deny opportunity.
There are several different traits that make up a person's identity. For me, being Vietnamese American is the entirety of who I am.
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
Your real identity is your spiritual being. And every problem, if you're a spiritual being, every problem has a spiritual solution.
When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know what to write about.
The alt-right has become about white identity politics. Obviously I'm not a white-identitarian, so the alt-right can do their thing.
Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.
Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.
The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.
My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.
Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.
It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.
To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything else first.
Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.
It's not just that I'm a woman of color running for office. It's the way that I ran. It's the way that my identity formed my methods.
We are proving that Latinos have the power to connect with an audience on a global level without having to leave our identity behind.
It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.
In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.
There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.
It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.
I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.
Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.
I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.
In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.
One a very basic level, you are what you remember - your very identity depends on all of the events, people and places you can recall.
Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.
I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.
Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.
Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.
By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.
We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.
Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.
As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time
I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.
Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.
Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.