Standard Identity

Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or identity:

“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women.... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)