Salman Rushdie Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

  Salman Rushdie

  Self, Roots, Identity

  "Hay Festival 2012: Salman Rushdie on security and The Satanic Verses" by Anita Singh, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 3, 2012.

• ...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a 'secret identity'.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Book, Secret Identity

• The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.

  Salman Rushdie

  Identity, Migration, Groups

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