Quotes About Identity

For years, I thought that if I had to be a palindrome, make me kuulilennuteetunneliluuk.

You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced you to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.

You don't really own anything. Nothing is yours forever, not your body, not your youth, not even your mind.

I'm a hoax, a dying boy who's grown wings.

Here is something I learned in the hundreds of years I spent in the center of the Earth and later in the libraries and bedchambers, pressed between your pages, carving my way out of your stories with one of the knives you gave me to show your readers that I was a spitfire, a flame-breathing beauty with black hair and barbed bits. Imaginary countries and imaginary cunts are in the same category. They are the same story.

My imperfections make me less mournable.

Are you the devil?" Yoth Begail whispered. "Am I the devil?

There was no way I could live another moment without Aza Ray knowing my name." - Jason Kerwin

Famous people aren't magic. Despite their thoughts to the contrary.

You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced you to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been. Look at yourself. You're living, not a singer in the midst of her deathsong.

I've been invisible for a long time, and he's been walking the world with all the privilege of being a man.

But I ask you, wouldn't it be worse if I were perfect ? My imperfections make me less mournable.

Soy David, ya me conoces –dijo, y se adelantó. –¡No, no te conozco! –David Stenfäldt, del pueblo... –¡Cierra la boca! –lo interrumpió Natte–. No puedo oír si hay alguien más por ahí. David no tenía ganas de continuar y dio un paso adelante.

We soon got the idea that 'Italian' meant something inferior, and a barrier was erected between children of Italian origin and their parents. This was the accepted process of Americanization," Covello reflected in his memoir The Heart Is the Teacher. "We were becoming Americans by learning how to be ashamed of our parents.

Becoming American meant rejecting one of the two worlds. It meant trying to hide the grease stains saturating the paper in which your school lunch of a fried potato and egg sandwich on crusty bread was wrapped, while the rest of your classmates ate ham on white bread with mayonnaise.

Becoming American meant hearing slurs that now defined you and your people: dago, wop, guinea, spaghetti bender.

At the heart of being a second-generation American meant feeling the shame of your heritage and the sting of family betrayal, creating an inner turmoil from which one never fully escaped.

Maleness and femaleness are not biological givens, but rather the results of a long historical process. In each historic epoch maleness and femaleness are differently defined. The definition depends on the principle mode of production in these epochs.

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal and in that city I spent most of my life.

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

It is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.

En realidad le importaba poco integrarse: el concepto de grupo le parecía más bien de "rebaño". Miraba a sus compañeros de facultad o de residencia y sentía que eran todos iguales. Bueno, quizá por grupos, pero iguales. De un solo vistazo podías saber si leían o no y qué, qué música escuchaban y hasta el tipo de chico o chica con que les gustaría salir. A Laura aquello le parecía aburrido. ¿Qué interés podría tener la gente en parecerse?