Quotes About Individuality

We'll be colored when the day's done, no matter how the cut comes or goes.

Instead, she threw her head back and laughed, displaying a mouth full of gums and one sole yellow tooth, which stood out like a clump of butter on a plate.

It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free?

Why she got to be bowlegged?" "I do got standards.

It took years before I began to accept the fact that the nebulous "white man's world" wasn't as free as it looked; that class, luck, religion all factored in as well; that many white individuals' problems surpassed my own, often by a lot; that all Jews are not like my grandfather and that part of me is Jewish too. Yet the color boundary in my mind was and still is the greatest hurdle. In order to clear it, my solution was to stay away from it and fly solo.

Am I black or white?" "You're a human being," she snapped. "Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!" "Will I be a black nobody or just a nobody?" "If you're a nobody," she said dryly, "it doesn't matter what color you are.

The only thing that's fair about me is the colour of my hair. People should remember that.

Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.

You can only be you, and it is not until you reclaim your unique self that you can be truly great.

You don't speak much, do you? ter Borcht said, circling him slowly. Fittingly, Fang said nothing. Vhy do you let a girl be de leader? ter Borcht asked, a calculating look in his eye. She's the tough one, Fang said. Dang right, I thought proudly. Is dere anysing special about you? asked ter Borcht. Anysing vorth saving? Fang pretended to think, gazing up at the ceiling. Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

Nudge: I look like prep school Barbie. (looks at Max) Actually, you look like prep school Barbie. I'm just Barbie's friend.

Dr. Martinez: I take it you don't want me to call your parent? Max: Uh, no. Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please?

He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. "You're black." "I prefer canine-American," said Total.

Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.

It's funny how different people are. If I'd been this kid and someone was snarling Ordering a pizza? at me, without even thinking, I would have snarled back Yeah. You want pepperoni? -Maximum Ride

Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.

I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe. p. 155

Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn't made of titanium and black leather with spikes on it. But it seemed exactly right, in a weird, heart-fluttery kind of way. And I really loved it.

Part 5 The Voice- Make that my voice

I loved her," Robinson said. "And I loved the sick girl you were when I met you, and I loved the good student and the bad driver. I loved the car thief, the hitchhiker, the quoter of novels I haven't read, and the hater of Slim Jims… Axi Moore, I've loved every you there ever was.

All genders?' whispered Nudge. 'Aren't there just the two' I shrugged. 'No idea. Maybe they've created others.

And there I was, pretty as heck, brown eyes, a few freckles, fashion challenged, and a bad attitude. Max II.

I want to do it too!" said Gazzy, sitting very, very quietly, completely motionless. "Nope," said Nudge, shaking her head. "You stand out like a fart in church.

I look like prep school Barbie, Nudge complained, as she entered the kitchen. She caught sight of me in my uniform and looked mollified. Actually, you like prep school Barbie. I'm just Barbie's friend.