Quotes About Identity

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk. It's like, "If my thin mom is calling herself fat, what does she think I am? What am I?"

I am who I am today because my mama mama'd me.... Every accolade I get, every accomplishment I've achieved, all my iconic moments and catchy coined phrases (Smize, boo!) are because of her. I am her creation. Her FrankenTy.

It's all about lovin' not only who we see in the mirror, but what we feel about ourselves when we look in the mirror.

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

She has one green eye and one brown one. Have

Some day I will show all the [people] who say I was a success just because of my pretty face. Sometimes I wish I had a really bad car accident so my face would get smashed up and I'd look like Eddie Constantine.

L'Histoire l'emporte sur la mémoire, or l'Histoire a besoin de héros.

I am like a puppet sitting here. It's not just I; all of us are puppets. Nature is pulling the strings, but we believe we are acting. If you function that way (as puppets), then the problems are simple. But we have superimposed on that (the idea of) a "person" who is pulling those strings.

The society is interested only in fitting every individual into its framework and maintaining its continuity.

I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about. It comes as a shattering blow. It hits you like a thunderbolt. You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize -- and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you.

Q.= WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU? U.G = You are what you are doing RIGHT NOW!

When you'r no longer identified with roles and labels and conventional definition of person

Human existence and action are characterized by their capacity for meaning.28 No form of human life can be defined "without reference to meaning. It makes sense [Sinn] to understand meaning [Sinn] as the fundamental category of human existence."29

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

We do not want to be seen as machines. Hence we tend to reject statements like the one by Karl Vogt, a 19th century German philosopher, who stated that "the brain produces thoughts as the liver produces bile, or the kidneys produce urine".

I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.

I know only two tunes. One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' the other isn't.

The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; to suffer. I signify all three.

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.