Quotes About Identity

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Fishwives. Fishwidows. And we all set out to be mermaids.

I couldn't be with people and I didn't want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I'd lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.

I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.

Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard

A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self.

A végén persze kiderült, hogy nincs nekem más ellenfelem, csak önmagam, csak hát fogalmam se volt, mily határtalanul gyönge vagyok.

Everyone is sick with his existence.

People are a chain of souls, sometimes so entangled, that they forget who, where they have to go, to be home.

The soul sees the body and says: I think I know him from somewhere… The body sees the souls and says: Forgive me!

cigarettes he smoked. As if he were the Duke of

Schneiderman (alias David Britton alias David Henry)

I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

America where there is the little old ramshackle victoria in the south, where cigars are smoked on the street in the north; where there are no proof-readers, no silkworms, no digressions; the wild man's land; grassless, linksless, languageless country in which letters are written not in Spanish, not in Greek, not in Latin, not in shorthand, but in plain American which cats and dogs can read!

Youth never sees its shadow till the sun's about to set: and then you wonder where the person went who you were speaking to in all your thoughts for all those years.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

La revolución es el huracán, y el hombre que se entrega a ella no es ya el hombre, es la miserable hoja seca arrebatada por el vendaval…

Llega uno a cualquier parte y no tiene más que escoger la casa que le cuadre y ésa agarra sin pedirle licencia a naiden. Entonces ¿pa quién jue la revolución? ¿Pa los catrines? Si ahora nosotros vamos a ser los meros catrines.

You can't change skin, can't fix tongues, can't brighten eyes, but power is for the taking. Steal it, lie for it, kill if you have to. You can win the girl with the interesting eyes. Looking

I have never attempted to hide that I have had two husbands in my life. I have, however, neglected to mention that in between them, I had a wife.

Would that I were a man,'" I said, quoting Sarpalyce's legend. "Except that I do not wish I were a man. I only wish that being a woman did not limit me so.