“Identity is not taste or fashion; it has nothing to do with what we’ve purchased in the past or want to buy in the future. Identity comes from making real choices that force you to decide what is true, fair, and just. Identity is not given to you; it’s earned by your life experiences.”
Against Authority: Freedom and the Rise of Surveillance States (2014)
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Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Quoted in Really Reading Gertrude Stein : A Selected Anthology with essays (1989) by Judy Grahn (Crossing Press ISBN 0-895-94380-8, p. 253
“You create identity, you're not given identity per se.”
Kathy Acker (1947–1997) American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet
Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)
Context: You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's texts that create the identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.
Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
The Power of Now (1997)
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Frank Stella (1936) American artist
Quote, 1960's; as quoted in The New York school – the painters & sculptors of the fifties, Irving Sandler, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978, p. 307
Quotes, 1960 - 1970
“What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.”
Wei Wu Wei (1895–1986) writer
Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way (1963)
Mao Zedong book On Contradiction
Selected Readings from the Works of Mao Tse-Tung, pp. 121
On Contradiction (1937)
Original: (zh-CN) 一切矛盾着的东西，互相联系着，不但在一定条件之下共处于一个统一体中，而且在一定条件之下互相转化，这就是矛盾的同一性的全部意义。列宁所谓“怎样成为同一的（怎样变成同一的），——在怎样的条件之下它们互相转化，成为同一的”，就是这个意思。
