Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you.

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the tribe is defined by opposition to other tribes. Our tribe, and its traditional ways, is superior to other tribes because it is ours.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

I'm a comedian who happens to be Muslim; my comedy stems on all forms of my identity.

If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

Southern Baptists are VERY, VERY Southern, and black Baptists are VERY, VERY black

There is little political cohesiveness within large ethnic groups, except when faced with an enemy ethnic group.

The associations inside the group become more important than those outside.

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.

We sincerely tried everywhere to merge with the nations in which we lived seeking just to preserve the faith, the religion of our fathers but this has not been allowed to us.

I don't really believe in the idea of the individual.

I wouldn't say I am practicing Muslim - I don't go to the mosque or anything, but it's part of my identity.

There's a momentum to being committed to a group that you think is good, and there's a certain amount of cognitive dissonance to make your choice a good choice.

There is a sense of tranquility that I think people can get from being in an organized group, where a singular leader handles the responsibilities of individual thinking.

We want, as the Saudi people, to enjoy the coming days and concentrate on developing our society and developing ourselves as individuals and families while retaining our religion and customs.

Creating groups is easy - but to make them meaningful and lasting, you have to give them a common identity that not only unites them but shows them why they are unique.

When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.