We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.
I think we carry around the idea of being a Kid in the Hall as part of our identity. It's a big part of how we see ourselves now.
We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.
More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.
Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves.
Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.
Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
