#identity

But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where is your authentic body? You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image; you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens (I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you): even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#perceptive #self-perception #perception

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#consequence #global #identity #investment #lose

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#else #identity #immigration #in the past #mexican

We need to reflect the true identity of Muslims, how peaceful they are and really be able to talk to the Western media about the true look and heart of the Muslims. ↗

— Hesham Qandil

#about #heart #how #identity #look

No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#day #did #identity #like #own

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity. ↗

— Gena Rowlands

#acting #actress #become #enjoyable #everybody

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#always #great #i #identity #informed

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#country #how #identity #knows #live

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#identity #lesbian #life #religion #romance

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive... ↗

— Malcolm X

#afrika #identity #malcolm #attitude