Quotes About Identity

Ich wäre sehr froh, wenn Du in mir doch etwas anderes sehen könntest als eine Art Nichtstuer.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

You fell off the tree of fucked-up-weird and slammed every branch on the way down.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."

Tribalism is the strongest force at work in the world today.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

Sairei de mim mesmo em busca de mim mesmo, em busca de minha imagem perdida nos abismos do desespero, minha imagem de cuja face já não me lembro mais…

The False Self constructs all sorts of layers of ego and angst and striving and foolishness, while the True Self, deep at the center of a person, waits for the time when the False Self will die and allow the real life to begin.

My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.

What Planet Are You From?

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Don't be a little fool,' he said curtly. 'It really is time you started to enjoy being a woman, and if there weren't enjoyment in it the human race would have come to an end a long time ago.' 'As if men ever cared one way or the other,' she rejoined. 'All most of you care about are sex symbols to gawk at, and maternal types to see after your comforts. I don't know into what category I fit, unless it's paramour!

A saint likes to be told what he is, but a sinner is a bit touchy.

I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.

We embraced again, we wanted to engulf each other. We had cast off our families, the world, time, certainty. Clasping her against my gaping open heart, I wanted to draw Isabelle inside. Love is an exhausting invention. Isabelle, Thérèse, I pronounced in my head, getting used to the magical simplicity of our two names.

Ses lèvres cherchaient des Thérèse dans mes cheveux, dans mon cou, dans les plis de mon tablier, entre mes doigts, sur mon épaule. Que ne puis-je me reproduire mille fois et lui donner mille Thérèse. Je ne suis que moi-même. C'est trop peu.

one reason why we see so many young people from the North East in Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai and other Indian metropolitan cities is because Rajiv Gandhi made the north eastern states feel like part of the Indian mainstream. And

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.

Never again will I allow myself to be so caught up in the events of my world and my activities that I lose contact with my own heart and mind. All my achievements mean nothing if I lose myself in the process.

North. He believes they saw him as

Particularly difficult for partners is the reassertion of self, unless they have been very strong as individuals throughout the partnership. Learning to say 'I' instead of 'We' can be a painful task for two people who have grown into each other and become enmeshed.

My environment reflects the life I've led, the places I've visited and the people I've loved.