"Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity."

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Source : Dorothy West (2009). “The Wedding: A Novel”, p.82, Anchor

Dorothy West

#Self Quotes #Identity Quotes #Resistance Quotes

“I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.”

Source : Source: chicagoist.com
“Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by a racial constant. We can often explain them-in terms of contact with other peoples, of individual genius, of geography-but not by racial differences.”
“The only one you can accurately compare yourself to is you!”
“If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.”
“We build buildings based on the false assumption that women go to mosques half as much as they actually do. In fact, the US is the only country in the world where women and men report that they attend the mosque in equal numbers, but our institutions aren't representing this reality.”
“If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.”
“We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.”

Source : "Economist says U.S. inequality reaching "spectacular" heights". Interview with Alain Sherter, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2014.

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