Identity

“Chile empieza a pensar en lo que es y en lo que será.”

“Am I not preparing for the great object of embellishing the tongue of my fathers?”

“The pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.”

“In all my stories, in all my work, I do NOT write about the Filipino, I write about MAN.”

“Simplemente llámenme Agustín.”

“Art is like that—it absorbs your whole life and being.”

“We become what we think about.”

“This is where we lived in, down Second Avenue — that’s the title of my autobiography, Down Second Avenue.”

“أنا لا أعيش في الماضي، لكن الماضي يعيش فيّ.”

“Personality comes to its own when one, through such increasing consciousness, comes to discover the central fact, which commands the wide complexity of life.”

“I carve as a Jamaican for Jamaica, trying to understand our problems and living near to the heart of our people.”

“I don’t want to lose who people fell in love with. I am keeping it King Kaka, I am not here for the wave.”

“I call African philosophy a set of texts: the set, precisely, of texts written by Africans and described by their authors themselves as ‘philosophical’.”

“Bence Galatasaraylılık din gibi, mezhep gibi yerleşmiş, köklü bir inançtır. Galatasaraylılığımla her zaman gurur duyarım.”

“An accent is an asset.”

“Soy francés, nacido en Toulouse, el 11 de diciembre de 1890.”

“The sad part of the story is — we derive our self-worth by comparing ourselves to someone else.”

“Meskipun saya telah membuat dua film sebelum “Darah dan Doa”, film itu saya rasakan sebagai film saya yang pertama.”