Quotes About Identity

Family name and paternity are two different things, but but one must start somewhere.

Perhaps I'll grow my beard, he thinks. It would save time. Only then, Hans would insist on committing another portrait against me.

Will they be the same, my lord?

Thomas thinks, he was being unnecessarily Welsh.

He had thought that under their clothes people wore their skin.

Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do.

If Henry is the mirror, he is the pale actor who sheds no lustre of his own, but spins in a reflected light. If the light moves he is gone.

For a young reader that's an important moment, when you recognize that your self exists in the world and that your self exists in literature.

I am as I am and so will I be But how that I am, none knoweth truly Be it evil, be it well, be I bound, be I free, I am as I am and so will I be … … But how that is I leave to you. Judge as ye list, false or true Ye know no more than afore ye knew Yet I am as I am, whatever ensue.

He gives himself a glass of wine, and another to Wyatt; says, 'Gardiner has people outside the gate, watching who comes and goes. This is a city house, it is not a fortress – but if anybody's here who shouldn't be, my household does enjoy kicking them out. We quite like fighting. I'd prefer to put my past behind me, but I'm not allowed to. Uncle Norfolk keeps reminding me I was a common soldier, and not even in his army.

Don't call me darling. I'm a driving instructor!

She had to go," said Rose. "It was because of her angel," said Indigo. "And because of Granddad," added Caddy. "And because of her nose stud." "And because her name isn't on the color chart." "She's lonely," said Rose. "That's why.

The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone.

in the particular case of human beings, there can be no determination of what a human being is, no human nature, apart from the manifold ways in which humans become, as they live out their lives in diverse communities and environments.

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

She's wearing one of the dresses of ... of the people ... who lived here before.

Amerika is wie Föhn, je länger man da ist, um so schlimmer wird's.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.

Part of our shared tragedy - we recognized it at once - was that we never separated from our mothers, which meant we liked girls more than the world like them, which is to say more than they liked each other, let alone themselves.

Che bisogno hai di cambiare? Per me va benissimo essere l'unico a capire ciò che provi! Così è come se fossi tutto mio, no?

Such beautiful scarlet hair....Why don't we call you 'Erza Scarlet'? It's the color of your hair, that way, I won't forget it!" -Jellal Fernandes