Quotes About Identity

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.

How do you knowyou're a girl?I'm wearing a frock.And if you take it off?I get cold, so I putit back on.If I was a boy, I don't know what I'd do.

Let go, let go, let go, Just let it go, Let the tears come out, Stop fighting the tears back, Stop wearing different masks, Let yourself be seen, Let yourself be the real you,

a woman will tell youevery home she has ever inhabitedhas been broken intostarting with her body

Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.

Remove the mask. Let me love the darkness you hide underneath.

In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.