An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
“I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.”
“I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.”