#identity

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacred…", "The English have devastated…", "The Jews have confiscated…", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuse…". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." – Amin Maalouf "On Identity ↗

— Amin Maalouf

#identity #racism #stereotype #stereotypes

Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it. ↗

— Kimberly Kinrade

#culture-identity #seattle #truth #love

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#toni-morrison #change

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fiction #identity #love #lovers #naming

You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#identity #the-love-of-the-last-tycoon #love

Only me, eh? Is that how you see yourself? Only you is worth a good deal more than you think. ↗

— Gabriel King

#inspirational #inspirational

He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#inspirational

We do not behave out of our identity, we behave out of our understanding of our identity in Christ. ↗

— Shelley Hendrix

#identity #identity-in-christ #inspirational #purpose #inspirational

Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#change

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

#concept #difficult #difficult time #especially #foreign