It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master
They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.
I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry.
Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.
Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.
When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.
If you establish an identity, you build a monster-and thats right, youve got to live with it. Of course, you can enjoy it, too.
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.
Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
The real meditation is. . . the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!
When you find your authentic self, your identity - your true identity - how many people work a job they hate or live a life, they're going oh my gosh.
The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.
I have my own identity as a player.
Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.
The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.
The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become.
To propel our Louisiana culture into the future seems to be quite a task, but if one lives for the music as Cedric does, the path seems effortless. These songs may well be early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, but also for the identity survival of a culture.
We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards
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.
