identity Quotes

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.