Quotes About Identity

So, nationalism (Spanish nationalism as well as Catalan nationalism), both in Catalonia and in Spain, takes the forefront of the political landscape in line with a broader trend sweeping European democracies.

although racists voted for Trump, the majority of Trump voters are not racist. They are people who feel threatened by their country's rapid economic, technological, ethnic and cultural change. This is why older white men supported Trump: they were trying to preserve their world, a world they saw disappearing day by day, where immigration was the most visible sign that their neighbours were no longer who they used to be.

Trump did extremely well with voters that some analysts have called 'white trash', the pejorative epithet frequently used to describe poor white people throughout history. It was a cry for survival based on the only thing they had a handle on: being white

Van entretenir-se més en arribar a les dues cases contigües on havien viscut i que, passatgerament, ressuscitaren en ells una emoció fàcil de contenir, perquè ara ja no eren aquelles dues criatures que, de sobte, ho perdien tot, sinó un noi i una noia aleshores inexistents, la història dels quals començava al moment que es decidien a ser origen i no acabament.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

María Luisa Bombal

Es verdad que siempre he tenido miedo de que la gente no me quisese tal y como yo soy, ese es mi temor más grande, pero a lo mejor faltaba la clave, el por qué.

giving life back to an adolescent who would otherwise disappear forever:

the mention of age is only a reference point in the observation of the self.

The old" corresponded to a social class, a bit like "the young" does today.

The writing of autobiography or memoir is comparable to the effect of time on ruins: it works by means of subtraction and selection.

La migración, con todas sus fatigas, sus peligros y sus tragedias, se inscribe en la misma perspectiva. La esperanza, por muy ilusoria que a menudo demuestre ser, ordena la fuga hacia adelante. La migración no se identifica con la felicidad,

We no longer have a simple relationship with our own bodies, with ourselves.

Witness the diversity of an unpredictable self that seems to repeat and reproduce itself exactly but that can also take me by surprise, outstrip and escape me.

Sabemos bien que en cualquier sociedad el orden social y cultural gobierna la relación con la naturaleza, que nombrar es clasificar, que una soledad absoluta es impensable, que toda identidad se define en relación con una alteridad, y que lo mismo y lo otro están estrechamente ligados, asociados en el tiempo y en el espacio.

the other and the past coexisted there from the beginning),

tell me how you age, and I will tell you what you were.

In a way, the user of the non-place is always required to prove his innocence. Checks on the contract and the user's identity, a priory or a posteriori, stamp the space of contemporary consumption with the sign of non-place: it can be entered only by the innocent.

Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become.

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.

Write like yourself, only more so.

On peut être avec quelqu'un pour fuir sa solitude, on peut partager son quotidien pour digérer une rupture en continuant d'entretenir le souvenir d'un autre. On peut parler à quelqu'un en écoutant la voix d'un autre, regarder quelqu'un dans les yeux en voyant ceux d'un autre.

Chacun a son monde, le tout est de planter ses racines dans la terre qui nous convient.