Quotes About Identity

You can't be a non-conformist if you don't wear the proper uniform.

You must be rendered sane according to the culture of the people.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

It's been said that we're all three people: the one we see ourselves as being, the one others see us as being, and the one we really are.

Progressive, black, gay, and smelling like marijuana, DC is as blue as it gets.

This line of thinking, ascribing agency and individuality to women, an individuality which may lead to different outcomes than men's, violates the foundational myth of the Blue Church: all people everywhere are exactly the same, including their preferences and life choices.

All at once, I went from successful social justice activist, to unemployed racist.

Marxists believe culture and all its ideas are a result of economic conditions, intersectionalists believe group identity is paramount, and both views discard the individual as irrelevant.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60. -Jack Nicholson

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

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Even his name remained mysterious. Just Shane. Nothing else. We never knew whether that was his first name or last name or, indeed, any name that came from his family. "Call me Shane," he said, and that was all he ever said. But I conjured up all manner of adventures for him, not tied to any particular time or place, seeing him as a slim and dark and dashing figure coolly passing through perils that would overcome a lesser man.

What a man knows isn't important. Its what he is that counts.

In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.

Don't lose youself on the way to the top.

You don't know who your friends are ... until you're not like them anymore.

Why don't boys like girls as they are?' 'They bore easy cause the so deadhead. Sometimes they want you mami, sometimes sis, sometimes lovergirl. You game with boys you got to know who you are and not let them tell you'.

We're all the same inside.

Lennie Golden. Son of crusty old Jack Golden, a stand-up Vegas hack, and the unstoppable Alice – or 'Alice the Swizzle' as his mother was known in her heyday as a 'now you see 'em – now you don't' Las Vegas stripper.

Teachers had told her she was intelligent. Friends had said so too, often slightly accusatory as if being intelligent had made her too different to be quite comfortable with.

Yo no soy para nada bonita, pero cuando sea grande quiero ser el tipo de persona que haga que la gente diga: "Cuando la conoces no la puedes olvidar".

I felt I'd used up most of my life's words in the palace, among folk who were never really mine, in a place that wasn't home.

But was it snobbery to feel that someone's world was too different from yours to ever meld, despite what he had felt back among the light and chatter? Was it prejudiced to acknowledge that skin colour did make a difference, simply because it did matter to so many?