#identity

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#absolute freedom #because #deal #freedom #identity

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#binary #black #creates #enormous #example

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. ↗

— Charles Brenton Huggins

#apparently #ardor #blind #cannot #her

One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#come #core #far #how #how far

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#best #cities #context #create #desired

And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow to resent the hell out of it, and resent the hell out of whomever you're betraying and censoring yourself for, but the very idea of your self begins slowly and inexorably to erode. Until you realize one day out of the clear blue that you have no idea who your self is, anymore. ↗

— Ron Currie Jr.

#relationships #self #relationship

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#christianity #gentleness #god #identity #tenderness

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#ego #egotism #endorse #give #identity

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. ↗

— James Baldwin

#experience #faces #his #identity #person

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#gives #idea #identity #little #man