Quotes About Identity

People are tired of homogenous, fluffy groups.

We are all the same inside. We have the same heartaches and joys, the same fears and ambitions. Money doesn't change who we are.

a lot." He gave her Mallory's name and birth date and the names of her adoptive parents. "That should be enough to get started. This probably

The scars don't define you. Who you really are inside is what matters. Any woman with real depth would know that.

There is more to a soul than what others see

Nothing could define her unless she let it. She had God in her life to heal those broken places, but she hadn't let him do it.

Of course, the way Ramos had acted probably made it seem like I was his girlfriend, but did they have to think I wasn't his type? At all?

A stray thought that maybe I should run away to South America started to sound like a good idea. I could change my name to Nikki Shelverstien and dye my hair a rich dark brunette. I could be a maid at a high-class hotel and pretend I didn't speak Spanish or English so everyone would leave me alone.

No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey's, or That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge…. You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you'll find the true face of America. It was a joke, then, from the start. There was only darkness outside the windows on her journeys, and only ever would be darkness.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

All that you say you are, you aren't.

As a generation, we must make our own mark of culture so we are remembered in the way we wish to be.

Be what you know you are without fear of disapproval.

Be, He will, all things to all people, yet it is my mission to show the world my Him for if that is lost in the noise, then the origins of all Him are too lost.

Do not fight that which you are.

First, you must understand you are nothing. And from there, you can become something.

He be the persona of the peoples.

He, sent by a mysterious force, gave me my place in this world.

How do I become what I know I must be?