Quotes About Identity

Jane Doe had three pierced right ears and two pierced left.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.

It is only through writing that I become myself

Behind the appearance there is a naked conscience.

Clothes don't hide the soul.

Fish don't fly, birds don't swim, find out what you're capable of, before you want to be.

Self-esteem suffers the consequence when conscience does not want to live on appearance.

The happiness of a mannequin is to be in a shop window."

The mask hides the face, but the attitude reveals the intention of the soul."

The scarecrow's self-esteem turns rags into fashion.

The chicken that is raised by the eagle, strives to fly higher and higher, but the eagle that is raised by the chicken, spends its whole life not knowing what it is to fly."

The scarecrow has its own style."

The scarecrow has its own stylist."

We are produced in the same factory, but some beings need to be recalled."

I've always thought that if little straight boys were taught that the one surefire, telltale sign of repressed homosexuality was the beating and killing of gay men—and the truth is lurking around that idea somewhere—then gay-bashing would shrivel away within a generation.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.

I was breathing life into the book through my hand, and the book was breathing back out through me into the world. And what was a book but leather? And what was leather but animal skin? And what was paper but a tree, and vellum but lamb? And what was I but an idea?

GET THAT CRAZY-ASS MULLET OFF YA SKULL

In the eyes of the others we who met them saw ourselves. And there were demons there.

who are we, that we so conceal ourselves from ourselves?

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?