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• Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.

  Don DeLillo

  Hero, Writing, Individual

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.143, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Brando, Nicholson

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• We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Revolution, Dimensions, Integrating

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• Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

  Harry Hay

  Identity Politics, Giving, Support

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• My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

  Alan Dundes

  Years, Taught, Academic

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• Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

  Camille Paglia

  Abnormal, Normal And Abnormal

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.104, Vintage

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• Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

  Boris Trajkovski

  Confidence, Community, Principles

  "Man of Vision: Interview with the President Of the Republic of Macedonia Mr. Boris Trajkovski". "Macedonia: A Nation at a Crossroads" by Sam Vaknin, February 12, 2009.

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• When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.

  John Stott

  Christian, True Identity, Loses

  John R. W. Stott (1959). “Basic Christianity”, p.112, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• In fact, to me it's liberating to not think of identity as some organic property that we have to find and stick to, but actually something that is constructed, or that's imposed, that we can then counter by taking a different route and re-dressing it, and then re-dressing it again, and then re-dressing it again.

  Todd Haynes

  Thinking, Different, Facts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Light, People

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.268, McClelland & Stewart

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• Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

  Maya Angelou

  Mind, Roles, Stories

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• Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

  Paul Ricoeur

  Order, Stories, Movement

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• A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Persons

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.442, Simon and Schuster

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• It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

  Beatrice Webb

  Writing, Would Be, Diaries

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.280, Cambridge University Press

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• Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Vision, Criticism

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• 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

  Mean, Community, Black

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• Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.

  Bell Hooks

  Beloved Community, Differences, Legacy

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• Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

  Dorothy West

  Self, Resistance, Pity

  Dorothy West (2009). “The Wedding: A Novel”, p.82, Anchor

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• If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

  Sarah Schulman

  Epidemics, People, Hiv

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.

  Thabo Mbeki

  People, Virtue, Grants

  Source: www.gov.za

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• As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.

  Wole Soyinka

  Citizens, Sometimes, Feels

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

  David Brooks

  Differences, Urban, Social

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're going to be in life.

  Irvine Welsh

  Lasts, Twenties, Chance

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The body is a field of ideas and it is a field of interpretations and when you change your experience of your own identity to a spiritual being, the body expresses the physical manifestation of that spiritual reality.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Reality, Ideas

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.

  Wil Wheaton

  Secret Identity, Should Have, Evil

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