Identity Quotes - Page 7

This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self.

That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self.

You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that.

The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities.

The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay. Behind all this, lies my true self.

Remember who you really are. You cannot be destroyed or hurt. You cannot be harmed or killed. You, the real you, will always be present and powerful.

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.

No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.

This is absolute - you were born wholly equipped with every prerequisite to rock the world. Spiritual deficits results in a habit to misidentify with a fragmented self, a fragmented story and thusly, a fragmented identity. We need not learn the skill of being whole, beloved, the answer is to unlearn the habit of living incompletely.

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.

I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.

Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

But some memories are more important than others,' she says. 'Because some memories belong to more than just one other person...Some memories tell us about who we are. They need to be kept safe so that things can change for all of us

The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago.

That gap is the matrix of Saudade – The Longing, I think, that all Africans in the West have, that is at the root of the blues and jazz and soul and rap. If you listen you can hear it, elusive, fleeting, full of melancholy anger.

The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip – has always created a passion for us.

Black people need to find out. We have to find out Who We Are and Where We Come From.