Quotes about Self-discovery

Without silence, we will not get any closer to knowing who we are before God.

No one will know who we are... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

My black brothers and sisters—no one will know who we are…until we know who we are! We never will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

I have learned to hate every drop of white rapist blood that is in me

I'm man enough to tell you that I can't put my finger on exactly what my philosophy is right now, but I'm flexible.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul

Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.

Look within. Within is the fountain of Good, ready always to well forth if thou wilt alway delve.

I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

Inside John, she thinks, is another John, who is much nicer. This other John will emerge like a butterfly from a cocoon, a Jack from a box, a pit from a prune, if the first John is only squeezed enough.

But then it came to me that who I really am is a person who doesn't need to know who he really is, in the usual sense. What does it mean, anyway - family background and so forth? People use it mostly as an excuse for their own snobbery, or else their failings. I'm free of the temptation, that's all. I'm free of the strings. Nothing ties me down.