Samuel P. Huntington Quotes

I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities.

If I'm in a gathering of filmmakers, I'm first and foremost a British Indian; if I'm in a gathering of British Indians, I'm a woman director. There are so many sides to who I am that I change all the time.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Christian, I think that's such a limited way of seeing humanity, and schools have the opportunity to bring out the fact that we have hundreds of identities. We have our national identity. We have our cultural identity, linguistic identity, religious identity. Yes, cultural identity, professional identity, all kinds of ways.

Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

I did not come into Parliament to be a Muslim MP. And I have never set myself up as a Muslim spokesperson or community leader. Just as ordinary citizens have multiple identities, so do MPs.

Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

That's interesting: people deriving their identities from their music.

I am instinctively wary of identity politics. Ultimately, no two black men are the same, any more than two white men are the same.

Everyone is so into labeling themselves. I don't really put too much into that.