Tuesday 5 July 2011

Quotes on Identity & Art.





A people must have dignity and identity.
Andrew Goodman

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
Wentworth Miller

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
Djuna Barnes

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.
Lucy Stone

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Woodrow Wilson

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.
Mathias Rust

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
Eugenio Montale

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
Jean Baudrillard

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
James Baldwin

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.
Robyn Hitchcock

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
Abdolkarim Soroush

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
Edmund White

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.
Michelle Shocked
 
As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.
Kenneth Koch

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.
Melissa Bean