Quotes About Identity

What dangers that word entails. How far can you compromise without seriously violating your identity, without permanently losing self-respect?

Es raro que la tendencia en el mundo global sea la de acentuar identidades, eligiendo la que más te margina —identidad gay, de raza, de discapacitado—. Me impresiona cómo corremos todos a adherirnos a nuestro grupo, haciendo hincapié en lo que más nos diferencia de los demás. Para hacernos iguales.

poor people are presented in the Theology of Liberation as decent, that is, asexual or monogamous heterosexual spouses united in the holy sacrament of marriage, people of faith and struggle who do not masturbate, have lustful thoughts at prayer times, cross-dress, or enjoy leather practices. However, if we keep falsifying human relationships in the name not only of God (a habit to which we have grown accustomed) we must remember that we do it also in our love for justice.

I fell asleep praying that Donald Trump would announce he was planning to become a woman.

What? What's your issue now?' I asked, annoyed. 'Jus' wonderin' what's it like for Droopy. This place is intense and he's jus' a lil' guy, you know?' Of all the bangers in the world, I had to get Mr. Sensitive. Droopy, I assumed, was Hector Amaya's gang moniker. I wondered why they were always so unflattering. Me, I would've at least picked something like Foxy or Jet. Which, I supposed, explained in part why I wasn't gang material.

I hated myself for being so weak. I seemed to have no real personality of my own. Gaby was the mirror in which I saw myself.

some trace and leaves some trace of himself—or herself—at any location visited. So

He's not 'people,' Melia. He's a reporter.

I'm completely on board with fashion as an expression of individuality, but T'Chia seemed to be expressing several individuals.

parents were dead. We hadn't found his birth parents yet. He hadn't gone to college, his high school records were archived somewhere—we had unis working on it—and his elementary school

La vida consiste en descubrir su propia naturaleza.

condition of the woman

I finished my 20s with a PhD in fusion energy, and I discovered I was useless.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

You will quickly be reduced to ashes and skeleton. And it may be you will have a name left you, and it may be not. And what is a name? Nothing but sound and echo.

Do as Socrates did, never replying to the question of where he was from with, 'I am Athenian,' or 'I am from Corinth,' but always, 'I am a citizen of the world.'

True individuality can be lonely.

People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.

Take care what you say! I'll have no hard words. Wretch! If I am a wretch, who made me one? If I hate you and myself and the world, who made me hate it? I was born free - as free as you are. Why should I be sent to herd with beasts, and condemned to this slavery, worse than death? Tell me that, Maurice Frere - tell me that!

Simt c? port în mine dou? inimi, e ca ?i cum a? tr?i o a doua via?? — cea din vis.

Black men, you were once great; you will be great again. Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.