50 Inspirational Quotes About Identity to Help You Find Your Uniqueness

50 Inspirational Quotes About Identity to Help You Find Your Uniqueness
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Tripboba.com - It is really easy to get caught up trying to get along with the crowd. As humans, we want to step into the crowd and be part of a group. But, when we focus too much on this, we might begin to lose everything that makes us unique.

Learning how to explore your identity and then grow in it can bring us to a much happier life. While others probably will try to get you to fit in, these quotes about identity can help you stay on track to living your best life and set an example for others to do the same.

Let’s check these inspiring quotes about identity to find your authentic self. Start reading!

Quotes About Cultural Identity

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Enjoy the following quotes about identity to make you proud of your own culture and identity.

  • "We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging." — Mark Kingwell
  • "Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand the world and shape it, to participate in democratic processes and have a voice, and also to strengthen their cultural identity." — Irina Bokova
  • "Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of white supremacy has usually meant that subordinate groups must surrender their identities, beliefs, values, and assimilate by adopting the values and beliefs of privileged-class whites, rather than promoting racial harmony this thinking has created a fierce cultural protectionism." — Bell Hooks
  • "Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they had some type of identity, culture, civilization before they were brought here." — Malcolm X
  • "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, and religious identity. Yes, cultural identity, professional identity, all kinds of ways." — Amartya Sen
  • "The question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades and my argument is that cultural identities and cultural antagonisms and affiliations will play not the only role but a major role." — Samuel P. Huntington
  • "I think globalization actually maintains and fosters various elements of national and cultural identities. I don't think everything is being homogenized. If anything, your food, your culture, and your ethnicity might become part of the globalized world, and thus absorbed by other countries." — Nouriel Roubini
  • "The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity." — Marian Wright Edelman
  • "I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones." — Taiye Selasi
  • “The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.” — Ruth Benedict.

Quotes About Self-Identity

Quotes About Self-Identity
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Read these inspirational quotes about identity that will make you love yourself more, no matter where you come from.

  • “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss
  • “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “A dreamer is one who can find his way only by moonlight and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.” — B. R. Ambedkar
  • “In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.” — Erik Erikson
  • “I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.” — Delta Goodrem
  • “I don’t cover my face because I want to show my identity.” — Malala Yousafzai
  • “There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” — Virginia Woolf
  • “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” — George RR Martin
  • “So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.” — Steven Chbosky 

Famous Quotes About Identity

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These notable quotes about identity will help you find the unique side of yourself. Enjoy!

  • “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
  • “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
  •  “We know what we are, but not what we may be.” ― William Shakespeare
  • “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” ― Coco Chanel
  • “Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” ― Orson Scott Card
  • “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.” ― Harvey Fierstein
  • “We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.” ― Chuck Palahniuk
  • “I am a citizen of the world.” ― Sylvia Beach
  • “I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.” ― Veronica Roth
  • “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice." ― Steve Jobs

Quotes About Gender Identity

Quotes About Gender Identity
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Gender is one of the factors that cause so many issues in this world. Let these quotes about identity help you to comprehend it more.

  • "There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results." ― Judith Butler
  • "Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being." ― Judith Butler
  • "If you find yourself in a relationship or even a friendship with someone who's conflicted with their gender identity, just be kind. This is not a life choice. This is something that you are born with. This is like being born with a gene for being tall, short, black, white, gay, straight - it's not a choice." ― Linda D. Thompson
  • "We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity" ― Dennis Prager
  • "Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of." ― Andrew Solomon
  • "I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their narratives about everything: their marriage, the world, God, gender, identity, etcetera. Then, at some point, our own narrative develops too much integrity to live inside that story. We don't ever fully escape it, but we move into our own stories." ― Melissa Febos
  • "Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all." ― Judith Butler
  • "To parents who find a child's disclosure about sexual or gender identity challenging, I always urge what I'd call "moderated" honesty. If you can't say "I love you," then say something like, "I'm going to need some time to digest this news." Buy time this way. And then think." ― Steven Petrow
  • "The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female." ― Andrew Comiskey
  • So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.” ― Michael Thomas Ford

 

Quotes About Identity Crisis

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An identity crisis is a developmental event that involves a person questioning their sense of self or their place in the world. If you are experiencing this issue, hopefully, these quotes about identity will help you feel better.

  • “Identities were like teeth: hard to maintain and easy to lose, but people tended to look at you funny when you were missing one.” ― Nenia Campbell,
  • "I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me." ― Jamie Lidell
  • "I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting." ― Matthew Rhys
  • "To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed. Major psychological disturbances, 'identity crises', are caused when an individual begins to change the audience for whom he plays: from parents to peers; from peers to the works of Albert Camus; from the Bible to Hugh Hefner." ― Luke Rhinehart
  • "As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis." ― Josh Hutcherson
  • "Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one." ― Anne Taintor
  • "Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old." ― Sara Zarr
  • “Since so much of our identity is constructed through our social relationships, which rely so heavily on language, aphasia can obliterate that feeling of belonging.” ― Debra Meyerson
  • "As a teenager I felt misunderstood. I felt confused. Somewhere in that confusion was me. The me I was destined to become.” ― Daniel Abbott
  • "I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender." ― Jess Row

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