- Nov 07, 2020
Identity Quotes
On finding out who you really are.
One quote here describes a lifelong search for identity as both a performer and a writer of songs, tied closely to the identity of the band itself. Another speaks more broadly of coming from a young country and continent whose own cultural identity is still taking shape.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
- Proof
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of the people I grew up with had identity problems. We all had perfectly marvelous lives.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020