Quotes About Identity

Because we ain't anything more than a name and some likes and some distastes and a story we tell about ourselves.

I always thought you were someone things happened to." "What sorts of things?" "You know. I thought you led a life of risk and adventure." She shrugged. "Here's what I know: People will think that, if you have a certain kind of hair.

Violeta... ¿Violeta? Hay una historia que te voy a seguir contando. Voy a seguir contándotela. Tú eres esa historia. No quiero que olvides. Cuando despiertes, quiero que te recuerdes. Yo voy a acordarme. Existes mientras te recuerde. Mientras alguien te conozca. Yo te conozco tan bien que podría manejar un simulador. Ésta es la historia.

Sometimes that made me feel kind of tired. It was like I kept buying these things to be cool, but cool was always flying just ahead of me, and I could never exactly catch up to it. I felt like I'd been running toward it for a long time.

I'll breathe in whatever face I want to breathe in.

What is all this? What did we fight for? Why did we shed our blood, if I can't dance to my heart's content — and I'm supposed to be a leader of the new society!

We are all suspended in a sphere of imagery and voices vying for attention. How do we know that what's going on is actually in our best interest? How can we be sure that our way of life will be preserved for the future? And do we really want it to be?

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

When people have no sense of self, relationships are just temporary distractions from the inner emptiness and fall apart at the first obstacle. My

Don't let me return as a woman in my next life! I'd rather be a dog or a rat than suffer this pain again!

Mas eu só queria saber neste mundo misturado quem concorda consigo mesmo! Somos misturas incompletas, assustadoras incoerências, metades, três-quartos e quando muito nove-décimos.

Eu sou trezentos, sou trezentos-e-cinquenta, Mas um dia afinal me encontrarei comigo...

If we generic gay and lesbian whitefolks set as our movement's goal being assimilated into American culture, getting 'our piece of the pie,' we ignore or deny the reality that gay and lesbian people of color will never be assimilated in the same way within this system because it was constituted to exclude them.

El propósito de la existencia es reparar, enmendar y soltar lo que no somos y descubrir quiénes somos en verdad.

Tu riqueza está en tu esencia: Quien eres, los talentos con los que naciste.

For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was a lesbian.

Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

I am glad that I am not a man, for if I were I should have to marry a woman.

Like most people who live on the edge, she spoke with two accents, neither authentic.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

Mon corps est amour. Nous sortons de l'histoire par notre propre ventre en criant. Nous sommes nos propres enfants.