Nipsey Hussle Quotes

I want to figure out myself as a man.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

I was a thug.

If you're not the guy who is going to puff your chest out like a rooster and go fight somebody, our society discards you.

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

I don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

You look in the mirror, but you don't see what you actually look like.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

I don't see myself as a violent guy.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.