Identity Quotes

"To be somebody and not just a great black poet " "I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen " "I, too, sing America " "I don't want to be a singer who just sings love songs" "Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself" "We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life" "We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become" "In the end, it's not about who you are. It's about who you think you are." "To abandon oneself to principles is really to die" "I suppose fashion is a form of art, and what you wear reflects who you are " "The honor of a nation is its life" "It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do" "The footfalls of the centuries echo through my being" "I didn't have anything to offer anybody except my own confusion." "Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art."