“Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A man's identity is not best thought of as the way in which he is separated from his fellows but the way in which he is united with them.”
Robert Terwilliger
“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.”
B. R. Ambedkar
“A white person and a black person in today's New York City can agree over coffee that race is `all in your mind, but when they leave Starbucks and raise their hands to hail a taxi, the white person is more likely to get a cab. In that moment, race is as real as gravity.”
David Berreby
“Your body has a beginning and an end; your body is subject to birth and death; but you, the spark of life within the body, are eternal.”
Science of Identity
“A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.”
Djuna Barnes
“Burning Man is such a huge part of my life and my identity. The things I believe make me a good person are the things I learned at Burning Man.”
Chelsea Teller
“Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.”
Camille Paglia
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