Quotes About Identity

All of us are walking contradictions made of mismatched parts and anomalies.

Plato called this anamnesis, remembering what and who we are, beneath our lives' shifting camouflage, beyond what can be taken away.

every night and was just about to miss the Metroliner—but only Joel recognized him. A forgotten nebbish who seriously thought for a little while he might be president. What was it like, to have had that dream obliterated, so long ago, and then go on living? Did he sometimes fall into it again, a little spurt of Possibilitase tricking him into imagining that maybe next year he would …

Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?

Like most people my age, I merely existed.

THOU ART NO THOR!

To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world."-Mark Miller

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

I myself am the apocalypse of which I speak.

Waikïkï is less Hawaiian than it is a bad mix of Las Vegas and Cancun.

How could you ever feel comfortable if no matter where you went you felt like you belonged someplace else?

Coming out for gay people is a process, not a one-time event. Some days you feel free, open, and ready to piss on the world if they care what you do in bed. On other days, even if you've been out to yourself and others, you're ready to hide in the darkest closet—because sometimes it is safer, easier, and more secure to hide.

You can get CUT UP, DRESSED UP, MADE UP, DRUGGED UP, but at the end of the day you are the MAN or WOMAN God made you.

La culpa no la tiene ninguna de las personas a las que llamo amigos, sino yo. Me falta algo. Y con el paso de los años me he ido dando cuenta poco a poco de que las decisiones que he tomado y la vida que he vivido han sido una respuesta a esa falta. Lo más significativo de mí, supongo, es lo que me falta.

The most important way of remembering someone is by being the person they made us — at least in part — and living the life they have helped shape. Sometimes they are not worth remembering. In that case, our most important existential task is to expunge them from the narrative of our lives. But when they are worth remembering, then being someone they have helped fashion and living a life they have helped forge are not only how we remember them they are how we honour them.

As a writer, you write about the world as you see it, and about yourself in disguise.

You are what you read. You write what you are.

The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to the person who would have himself cloned at great expense when so many unwanted children were going hungry.

You are a child of mine, Born of my own design, And you bear the hard of life. No matter where you go, Oh, you will always know, That you've been made free in Christ, And you are a child of mine!

Bond is now the Bond Girl of the opening credits. It's his silhouette we see – and nary a dancing naked babe in sight. Perhaps to compensate for this, in the actual film he gets his tits out a lot. He emerges from the sea glistening, showing off his pumped boobs, like Ursula Andress in 'Dr No' — save his nipples are more prominent. Bond has finally become his own Bond Girl.

Spiderman and Superman were closeted bodybuilders: they wore bodysuits that decently covered their flesh and masks that disguised their identity; their lives were rigidly divided between body-less bourgeois respectability and muscular super-hero fantasy; they led a 'double-life' that no one knew about and were never to be seen at the gym.

bodybuilding has come to be seen as a means by which boys can turn desire into identification.

Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isn't a fashion – it's an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are allowed to be and to want. Men are now permitted to be 'passive' – inviting our gaze.