Quotes About Identity

Sonhar e amar e transar. Nenhuma dessas coisas é uma identidade. Talvez quando as outras pessoas olham para nós, mas não para nós mesmos.

After awhile, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are.

It's assumed we'll be giving a present together---that's what couples are supposed to do. After a while, you become part of a proper noun. We're Daniel-and-Mandy.

Don't look at the package. Look at what's inside.

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious.

most people don`t know my name, and nobody knows what to call me in relation to you.

It was so screwed up, because the thing that made us the most powerless also gave us such power. We could make them turn away. We could bother them and challenge them and mess them up. You think people are afraid of two boys in love? To hell with that. What people are really afraid of is two boys screwing.

is where I am destined to live.

Coming out is a lifelong process,' Ms. MacTraugh continued. Each time we meet someone new or move to a different setting, we're challenged to reveal who we are. It's not always easy. But no matter how difficult, it's something I've never regretted. So few things in life truly matter. Chief among them are being true to yourself, and being honest with others.' ... 'As I said, only you can determine what's the right decision.

I didn't write autobiography. I wrote to leave autobiography behind.

Do you know what I learned? I learned that leaving is bullshit. Because you always take yourself wherever you go.

You leave the place you're from, you have to. But you also need to have it stay in you for a long time. It is your center.

Question: On a scale from one to ten how fierce are you?- David: You are just asking me this because I am gay... What the fuck does that mean? -David Levithan, at Teen Lit Con-

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.

activists are so determined to make the unorthodox normal and vice versa that they manufactured a new term, "cisgender," for a person without gender hang-ups—that is, for a person "whose gender identity corresponds with the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth.

when He sees us in Christ Jesus He

Just as a person, by virtue of his race alone, can be considered racist without having a racist bone in his body, someone can also, by virtue of his gender, be considered sexist. The leftist march toward dehumanization transcends the multiple categories of victimhood.

Human isn't a scientific concept at all. It's a folk-concept that means, roughly, one of us. As Rorty insightfully observes, such people "are morally offended Ã¢â'¬Â¦ by the suggestion that they treat people whom they do not think of as human as if they were human.

To understand war, we must understand ourselves.

Cica in fiecare grasan se afla cate-un slabanog care se lupta sa iasa la lumina, iar eu unul ii aud strigatele inabusite ori de cate ori ma uit in oglinda.

Inside, we are ageless...and when we talk to ourselves, it's the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It's the body that is changing around that ageless center.

What you're reading here is basically a person having a conversation with his own biography.

Stay true to yourself. Let your voice ring out, and don't let anybody fiddle with it.

Cain wonders for the first time, whether a child is born with the man already inside him waiting to emerge; or if there is only blankness, a void inside ready to be filled with whatever might be placed there.