Quotes About Identity

We live in an age of globalisation, but also one of identity politics. It is as if our world is expanding and contracting at the same time.

Trying to live up to what everyone else thinks and wants for you is a recipe for perpetual anxiety, self-doubt, and a generally unhappy life.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

You realize that if you are to change your belief about God, you will also have to change your belief about yourself.

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

Teddy Roosevelt, during the First World War, used to talk about hyphenated Americans. He was talking about German-Americans who had a divided allegiance, and he said, "If you're an American and something else, you're not an American.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

And I'm asking, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to fall apart or be the woman God created you to be?

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

I wanted you to know me.

Everybody's got soul. It's a matter of what condition it's in.

My body is an avatar.

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

Self worship is different from self love.

The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

As the term wears on I sometimes feel undermined by a sub-textual doppelganger, a shadow Freud haunting the classroom.

Sonetul c?tre vânt Curgi, vântule: nebun nisip C?ci lumea e o lumânare Cel care vine f?r? chip Ucide umbrele-n suflare. Acesta este trupul meu Osp?? bolnav de alterare Hr?ne?te-te ?i bea mereu C?ci sângele-i cu minutare O, schimb?-m? în ce nu sunt În alt? na?tere mai mare Din pântece eram p?mânt ?i mama m? crezuse soare. Curgi, vântule: trezit mormânt, Pe flac?ra întâmpl?toare.

Sens s? umbli tot pe contrasens e sensul meu de unic

Shut one eye then the other Peek into every corner of yourself See that there are no nails no thieves See that there are no cuckoo's eggs Shut then the other eye Squat and jump Jump high high high On top of yourself Fall then with all your weight Fall for days on end deep deep deep To the bottom of your abyss Who doesn't break into pieces Who remains whole gets up whole Plays