Identity Quotes
She thinks she is white, ' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.
Our choices define who we are when we make them. Therefore, we always have the power to change and choose who we are.
Sometimes I feel that I am destined for greater things, and then again sometimes I suspect that I am just an extra in an epic movie.
The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an 'alien' element.
You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks you’re not good enough because they can’t understand who you are.
Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about their own lives, so that they can establish a relationship to the past.
My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.My mind, I hope, will soon be found.
Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human.
Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands.
When we own our beliefs, we have clear boundaries. We know what we believe and we know what others believe. There is no confusion. Our identity is strong to us and everyone else.
For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.
No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary.
This was the face that Ga had shown the world, that of a boy who had swallowed the things that had happened to him, but who wouldn’t understand what they meant for a long, long time.
Online life is practice to make the rest of life better, but it is also a pleasure in itself.
Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I?
Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality.
Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other places, by logical extension, I'm nobody?
Without asking her permission, someone is trying to intrude her life, draw her attention, in short, to bother her.
I'd like to say I'm not self-absorbed compared to others, but that's hard to say since I'm far too self-absorbed to pry into others' self-absorption.
The question of identity is a question involving the most profound panic—a terror as primary as the nightmare of the mortal fall.
I want her sinful arms wrapped around me, bloodied and angry and triumphant in shame.
Remember that when you say ‘I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange, ’ you have denied America with that word.
Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?
Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?
The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them.
(President) Lyndon Johnson still snapped between exultation and insecurity.
She was ... unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies.
There comes a time when you just have to say, “No!” – to the requests and to the system.
Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality
Wouldn’t a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said?
Choice is the mortar that binds together the things that make us who we are.
People always say how you should be yourself. Like yourself is a definite thing, like a toaster or something.
As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has.
If mistakes determine our worth, then we're all worthless.Thank God that's not the case.
Disconnect from society’s pressure to conform. Do things your own way.