#identities

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#being #characters #every #give #him

Chus Martinez is a transsexual collective phantom. Anybody can be Chus Martinez! ↗

— Chus Martinez

#art-project #chus-martinez #multiple-identities #neoism #art

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#bodies #cannot #coercion #emerge #enlightened

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything. ↗

— Tom Allen

#aisle #almost #always #anything #apart

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#identities #key #liberty #modern #modern world

These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#actions #been #emotional #feel #happen

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#affinity #african #african american #american #construct

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are. ↗

— Spike Lee

#black #brought #comes #define #down

Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate. ↗

— James McGreevey

#being #campaign #democrat #described #eager

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#able #behavior #change #human #human society