Identity Gap Quotes

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

I think people perceive me completely differently than how I perceive myself. I see myself as a sweet, cosy, motherly type. We all want people to be more glamorous and daring and adventurous than they actually are.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

I mean, look when you meet me in real life, I'm not the person you see on the Internet, as disappointing as that is.

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.