I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.
I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.
Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.
A highly visible, shared identity can help bring activists from different backgrounds together with a common sense of purpose and push for change more effectively - from the global stage to within their own communities and families.
I don't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, it's very difficult to find.
Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.
We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.
There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.