Who We Are Quotes - Page 10

• If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Art, Struggle, Men

  Source: deadline.com

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• Because God loves us, he tells us where we came from and who we are.

  Jennifer Rothschild

  God Love, God Loves Us, Where We Came

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• It's that we're experiencing emotion through photo-real apes, and that's really holding a mirror up to who we are. It's interesting, because as we're showing the movie now, we're getting a lot of response about things [people] think are very topical. And the intention is never to approach it from the outside-in, which is to say, "Ah, this is going on, let's draw that in."

  Matt Reeves

  Real, Thinking, Mirrors

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. Because it is you who thinks that America has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. I happen to agree with you, and I will repeat what your question suggested...we have mistakenly gotten into one fracas after another. Why we do that [United States has insisted on keeping up a string of enemies, and the wars associated with creating those enemies], I think it's because we're afraid to look in the mirror and understand who we are.

  Norman Lear

  War, Thinking, Mirrors

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It's the obvious thing to say but artists want to be able to tell all kinds of stories and tear down every kind of wall, to look at ourselves and examine who we are and just get deeper insights into what makes us human beings. Anything that could possibly prevent that in our near future horrifies me to no end.

  Christian Slater

  Wall, Artist, Obvious Things

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?

  Christian Slater

  Matter, Window, Rich

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Perhaps one of the main antidotes to depression, lack of self-esteem, loneliness and so forth is the recognition that we really do have Buddha nature. All the other problems like anger, jealousy, ambitions, are merely habitual patterns that we've learned, but aren't inherent to who we are.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Loneliness, Self Esteem, Ambition

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• I think maybe it's more important to know the traditional concepts we have for thinking about how bodies are feminine or masculine or how sexuality is, straight or gay. These categories very often fail to describe the complexity of who we are.

  Judith Butler

  Gay, Thinking, Important

  Source: ilga.org

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• I'm predisposed to think that as a people, we're hardwired to understand things through the telling of stories. I think that as human beings it's part of who we are.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Thinking, People, Stories

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• The Democrats have been there for working people in our country. That's who we are, trickle-down vs. middle-class economics. That's the major difference between the parties.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Party, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is a stillness in all of us that is really the essence of who we are. A stillness and a silence that doesn't move, that doesn't go anywhere and our task is to experience that while being in time.

  Roger Housden

  Moving, Essence, Silence

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We're not actors, we're people behaving like ourselves on TV. We're both [me and Gordon Ramsay] exactly who we are on TV. I don't think either one is an exaggerated version. You just have to be who you are.

  Chelsea Handler

  Thinking, People, Be Who You Are

  Source: variety.com

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• I do think that a return to basic values and to a sense of who Greece - who we are as people can only be for the better in the long run.

  Diane Kochilas

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• Maybe we're stuck with who we are.

  Alice Mattison

  Stuck

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in His creation.

  Sho Baraka

  Justice, Joy, Understanding

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

  Tara Brach

  Attachment, Giving

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and it becomes very solid and sticky. That causes suffering because we're not inhabiting the fullness of who we are, we're fixated and contracted on life being a certain way.

  Tara Brach

  Suffering, Desire, Identity

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person's vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that's very fluid and graceful.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Space, Together

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I consider myself a realist who wants to stand up for women's voices, not when they try to be the same, but when they stand up for who we are and what we see and how important it is that our voice is heard.

  Liv Ullmann

  Voice, Important, Trying

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome.

  Liv Ullmann

  Book, Hero, Men

  Source: www.themarysue.com

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• St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. It was intended as a description of who God was, who we are and what our relationship is supposed to be with God.

  Richard Dawkins

  Textbooks, Augustine, Our Relationship

  Source: inters.org

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• Five hundred years later we're still doing it. This is a moment where we're either going to reaffirm that's what we do [with Native Americans ], that's who we are, or we're going to start moving toward change. A change won't come easy, because there's a lot of big money that doesn't care about any of this.

  Neil Young

  Moving, Native American, Years

  "For Neil Young, the Trump Era Feels a Lot Like the ’60s". Interview With Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. December 11, 2016.

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• When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people are aware of a discrepancy, I think. There are idiosyncrasies and foibles, but we're not sure if these are essential. Some people think they are the most essential things of all.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Thinking, People, Essentials

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I'm trying to find out what the hell we - who we are.

  Martin Scorsese

  Trying, Hell

  "The Modern Lessons Of Martin Scorsese's 17th-Century Epic, 'Silence'". Interview with Steve Inskeep, nprillinois.org. December 20, 2016.

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• We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

  Susan Rice

  Believe, Knows

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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