‘Solomon Creed’ is a man who knows everything about everything but nothing about himself and is on a journey of redemption to try and reclaim his identity. – Simon Toyne
The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life. – Tia Mowry
Scotland’s political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans. – Tariq Ali
I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out. – Steve-O
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you’re from, what your class is – those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity. – Stanley Crouch
Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments. – Tullian Tchividjian
I’ve never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don’t fit their mould of what an Aboriginal Australian is supposed to be or look like. – Shari Sebbens
There’s absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself. – Tullian Tchividjian
Our democratic system, national identity, and international space must be respected. Any forms of suppression will harm the stability of cross-strait relations. – Tsai Ing-wen
I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am. – Said Sayrafiezadeh
I have more of an identity with Cowher than I do Tomlin. I knew Cowher when he came over from Kansas City as a defensive coordinator, and his teams were tough. Tomlin came in from Minnesota, and I didn’t know anything about him. So maybe it’s unfair for me to make the comparison. – Terry Bradshaw
Every project has to stand on its own. It’s a different identity within each project, and I feel like that’s the way it should be. – Vince Staples
Self-discovery is so important in identity processing: who you hang out with, what clothes you wear, what shows you see. As a kid, I found out about things through friends. I would go to hardcore shows with 50 people. – Steve Aoki
What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party. – Thomas Frank
Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity. – Tina Fey
I’m really interested in stories about identity – who I am now versus who I used to be. – Seth Gordon
Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country. – Tom Paulin
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. – Wilfred Burchett
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We’re a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised. – Walter Salles
I do not want to be misunderstood that you need a dose of persecution in order, really, to have a sense of your identity. Otherwise, you know, there would be no American Jews. Even if you’re not strictly, fiercely Orthodox, you commit yourselves to a community of memory. – Simon Schama
I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn’t mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I’m always trying to make a larger human statement. – Wynton Marsalis
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. – Woodrow Wilson
I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go out in some sort of blaze of glory. I never thought about sort of fading into obscurity. And I’ve worked so hard at having a life, an identity, in obscurity and finding peace with that. – Steve-O
Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves. – William J. Mann
A rejection of the entire black awareness concept, where black is beautiful, black culture should be studied; and the cultural awareness of the importance of their own identity, their own individuality. – Joe Biden Arguing that “busing” – which he opposed as a senator in 1975 – would undermine black identity.