We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.
And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.
I mean, the FBI has to assure people who come and help them that they're going to be able to keep their identities confidential and protect them.
When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.
These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions.
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
We need a feminist movement in which the facts of the case trump the identities of the parties involved.
Every human being has an assortment of diverse identities, and it greatly matters which one is triggered by social situations, which hold up different kinds of mirrors. The same is true for nations.
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.
