Read quote“I am proud to be a Yoruba woman and I will continue to promote my culture.”
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About Identity
The self, belonging, and personal identity
The collection
Words on Identity
Read quote“A nation is not only a matter of race or the color of skin.”
Read quote“I'm so happy to have been born in South Korea. I've received so much love in the past half decade. I have no way to repay it.”
Read quote“We cannot dispossess ourselves of our literary heritage. We speak the English tongue and write in the English language.”
Read quote“على كل فنان ألا يتخبط بالبحث عن ذاته، وعن أسلوبه.”
Read quote“Saya rasa sebuah nama yang universal.”
Read quote“But that doesn’t make me a grime artist; I’m just a rapper.”
Read quote“Let African Christians be Christian Africans.”
Read quote“The “I” does not refer to the subject of the speaker in the same way as the name Bina Gupta does. The “I” is not a name.”
Read quote“I am an eternal foreigner.”
Read quote“My name is Gauhar Jaan!”
Read quote“We are strangers in this land [of India].”
Read quote“What people say about you is none of your business. What you say about you is entirely your business.”
Read quote“The truth of the matter is that there is no ascertainable face behind the various masks every story-teller is creating.”
Read quote“Uno es más que su yo profundo, que su posición metafísica; hay otras cosas que cuentan.”
Read quote“For me, philosophy was first and foremost the discovery of what it means to be a philosopher in Latin America.”
Read quote“أنا بطريركُ الموارنة، طائفتي لبنان، وأنا لكلِّ اللبنانيّين”
Read quote“El arte está ahí como un espejo, pero si nadie llega a verse frente a él, no pasa nada.”
Read quote“The future will depend on how we nurture our children. How we connect them to their history and sense of self.”
Read quote“It was really important for me to be my own person and to be unique to who I am.”