Quotes About Identity

We like to say that skin color doesn't matter, but that's not always true. We often use it to open doors.

Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.

nothing in Claudia's name.

SHE CALLED HERSELF AMBER, WHICH ALONG WITH ALEXIS happened to be the two most popular acquired names among strippers and whores in the French Quarter.

Native American" is a politically correct creation of clueless white people who feel better using it, when in reality the Native Americans refer to themselves as Indians and snicker at those of us who don't

The Prosecutor. His first name was Wagner, an extremely odd choice by his mother, but then it was her maiden name and she thought it fit him nicely, at least in the hospital. By the age of ten, though, he hated it for many reasons and chopped it in half. He'd gone by Wag for the past thirty years. Wag Dunlap. The voters seemed to like the oddness of his name.

right price they can produce college diplomas, birth certificates, marriage licenses, court orders, car titles, eviction notices, driver's licenses, credit histories—there's no limit to their mischief. Some of what they do is illegal and some is not. They brazenly advertise on the Internet, along with an astonishing number of competitors, but claim to be careful about whom they work for.

Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.' That's the perfect description of Tessa's family.

Denny and Rooker were watching too. They had traced the North Carolina license plates on Mercer's car and done the background. They knew her name, recent employment history, current lodging at the Lighthouse Inn, publishing résumé, and partial ownership of the beach

Most of us have moved away. Sure, we take the checks because it's our land, but the casino has destroyed the soul of our people. I know nothing about it. I despise the place and the people who run it.

Oh well. Part of being single was dealing with the misconceptions of others.

I'm a human first, then a lawyer. It's possible to be both—not quite so much on the spread there. We have to be efficient.

Native American" is a politically correct creation of clueless white people who feel better using it, when in reality the Native Americans refer to themselves as Indians and snicker at those of us who don't, but I digress).

A state employee too frightened to come forward. A reformed lawyer so spooked that he went to court in another state and changed his name. An ex-con with no real address.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

He had not recognized me, and thought I was some master he did not know.

Instead, she insisted on being called Queen Mother for the rest of her life.

No woman of spirit," he said, "would make choice of such a man that was more like a woman than a man

Guises swiftly proclaimed their niece to be "queen of England, Scotland and Ireland," challenging Elizabeth's right to succeed her elder sister on the grounds of bastardy and Protestantism.

Many highlanders spoke Gaelic rather than Lowland Scots, exacerbating cultural differences.

Mary rose and declared in the full glare of publicity that there was "no other queen of England but herself.

three white fleurs-de-lis on an azure background, set with three rubies and an emerald.

Everybody's got a river inside, he said. Always something under the surface.

All I see is someone running away from who he really is. I ain't running away, I called back. And that was the biggest lie I'd ever told.