Quotes About Identity

You won't find the same person twice, not even in the same person.

March roses shall burn me in the land where I was first born. / Pomegranate blossoms will conceive of me, / and I will be born from it once more.

Who am I to say to you what I'm saying?

You are my truth and I your question. We have inherited nothing but our names And you are my playground and I your shade at the crossroads of the anthem.

Grasp your own reality and grasp your name and learn how to write your own proof.

He was acting like the man he wanted to be, in hopes that he could become him. He would keep acting until he couldn't stand it anymore, and then he would be the man he was.

pero estoy harta de no ser quien no soy, y no puedo ser yo si aparento que soy otra.

Yo no le había puesto nombre. No tenía palabras. Creía que si no hablaba no existía. Las cosas que no se nombran se olvidan o desaparecen. Por eso me costaba tanto explicárselo a alguien

Nigdy nie by?am do ko?ca pewna, czy naprawd? istniej?. Mog?am przecie? by? cieniem, my?l?, obrazem, który b?yskawicznie przemkn?? pod powiekami innego cz?owieka. Jak?eby inaczej? Wystarczy?o, ?ebym siedzia?a w milczeniu przez minut? czy dwie i ca?y ?wiat móg? o mnie zapomnie?.

Yes, I still think of him as that, call him that. It's as real as any of his other names.

In London, I was unique. But down here, where I was a bungalow one minute and a funeral parlour the next, I felt as thought I was dissolving. I mean, if you're everywhere, you're nowhere. If you're everything, you're nothing.

The first item on a spiritual agenda is that I am not what I do, that I am what I am, and therefore I am a walking miracle, on a daily basis.

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Na última noite de lua cheia, tomamos a Brenantina, é esse o nome do nosso barco, e partimos da enseada de Brenan, no porto de Brenan, na cidade de Brenan I; cruzamos ao romper do dia o canal de Brenan; passamos junto ao terceiro rochedo de Brenan, para além do farol de Brenan, ao meio-dia avistamos o atol de Brenan, no meio do mar de Brenan. Em Brenan, tudo é Brenan!

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

we would all like to be taken for what we would like to be

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison.

New York was heaven to me. And Harlem was Seventh Heaven.

For as we stretch & strain to look through the various windows into the past, we do not merely see a bygone people hunting, fishing, painting their bodies, & dancing their dances. If we look long enough, if we dwell on their joy, fear, & reverence, we may in the end catch glimpses of almost forgotten aspects of our own selves.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.