#Self Definition Quotes

“I'm not hip-hop. I'm Tyler.”

“Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.”

“Action willdelineate anddefine you.”

“Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.”

“It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.”

“Everything I'm not makes me everything I am”

“All I know is that I am not a Marxist.”

“Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!”

“We don't have to let extremists define us.”

“Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.”

“In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.”