Quotes About Identity

No way of knowing how language re-created a family. His own children didn't want to learn Spanish, when he had given everything to learn English.

Every Mexican was a diluted Indian, invaded by milk like the coffee in Cayetana's cup.

Still. We are both man and woman. My brothers can be tender as mothers with their infants. Women can fight like tigers. Do you see? We are all a mix of each. Power starts when you strike the proper balance. Believe me when I tell you that the woman part of you is the better part. But you are also a man.

They call me Keychain," Neala said. "That's interesting," Little Angel replied. "On account of my teeth's crooked and they say I could open a beer bottle with my mouth, like a can opener." Little Angel stood there for a moment. He felt inexplicable love for these two waifs.

Before Irene was a fiancée, she had set out from Staten Island for Washington, DC, the story went, "to find herself." In a family whose eldest aunt was famous for being the first white woman up the Amazon, there was room for such things.

I am the only one who hasn't changed. I remain Catholic and atheist, thank God.

Buenazo, imprevisible, aragonés de Huesca, estudiante de Medicina que nunca aprobó un examen, hijo del director de la Compañía de Aguas de Madrid, ni pintor, ni poeta, Pepín Bello no fue nada más que nuestro amigo inseparable

Hay que haber comenzado a perder la memoria, aunque sea sólo a retazos, para darse cuenta de que esta memoria es lo que constituye toda nuestra vida. (...) Nuestra memoria es nuestra coherencia, nuestra razón, nuestra acción, nuestro sentimiento.

Uno de los grandes problemas de México es un nacionalismo llevado hasta el extremo que delata un profundo complejo de inferioridad.

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all.

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

A life without memory is no life at all

No es el amor quien muere, Somos nosotros mismos.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

cada cual es un poco la historia de las habitaciones que lo han cobijado y de los ruidos que se ha acostumbrado a escuchar.

Ubrzo je nanovo utvrdio da je njegova egzistencija sa?injena od fragmenata koji se me?usobno ne uklapaju, i svaki pokušaj da im se utvrdi neki redosljed bio bi jednak samotnoj igri na sre?u.

In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

If you're not white, you have to be brilliant, just to be considered acceptable.

In a world of beings who don't exist, who self-destruct and erase themselves, perhaps one should make a valiant effort to at least draw oneself. Maybe that's where all the sex comes from- to feel real.

Because fear called her by her name. (Her own name, not fear's name. Fear doesn't have a name; it's just the steady beat underneath a smile.)

Man findet sich, indem man sich verliert

It's just that you reach a point where metaphors become indistinguishable from the things they represent. And the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. And it feels like being born

Someone who could get up in the morning, make coffee, choose what to wear, and then go out and cold-bloodedly put a total stranger to death. Did you have to be some kind of anomalous, psychopathic freak to do that? Did you have to be born that way? Or could any woman, correctly programmed, be turned into a professional executioner?