identity Quotes

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.