Identity Quotes

"Your culture is your brand" "You weren't an accident. You weren't mass-produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on this earth by the Master Craftsman " "When I was growing up, I always wish I'd been someone else. I think I would have sublimated those feelings with drugs, had I not joined a gang that introduced me to therapy and yoga." "You are the only you God made… God made you and broke the mold" "I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one " "Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same" "The self thus becomes aware of itself only by its opposition to another self " "The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important." "Self-esteem comes from who you are and what you do is secondary " "I swear sports and music are so synonymous, cause we want to be them, and they want to be us" "My story's just like yours, whatever you want it to be" "Somewhere between psychotic and iconic" "The price of the ticket is the metaphor that the child pays for the ticket into the white world, is his blackness." "The identity of the Negro in this country is a social and political and moral crucifixion which you would find very difficult to gaze at." "I've never been a jealous guy, and what that taught me was who I want to be."