Quotes About Identity

It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.

opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do. What I should do. What I needed to do.

I wanted to keep me the way I was.

They don't want me. (Hey, I don't want me, either, but I'm stuck with me.)

I hate being carted around like equipment, even though technically I am actually equipment.

It makes it sound like the halves are discrete...As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do.

The good thing about being a construct is that you can't reproduce and create children to argue with you.

I had talked myself into believing that I hadn't actually lost it as much as I thought I had when Mensah had offered to let me hang out in the hub with the humans like I was an actual person or something.

Who you are is not your name or your family. Who you are is more essential than that; it comes from God. And what you make of yourself, that is what you give back to God.

You are who God made you, not who your father made you.

He had a real mother, and a stepfather named Bart who Martin called Fart but only with his brothers and James

Young women are restrained by so many tethers, it is not surprising that occasionally they get themselves tangled.

Lighthouses Point the Way Home This above all: To thine own self be true… —William Shakespeare

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. —Patricia Hampl S

The new hipsters had cast aside the syndrome of alienation and despair that saddled many of their beatnik forebears.

We all have names we don't know about.

We all have names we don't know about.

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

The most beautiful women in the world were African.

I looked you up, Arkady. You have a checkered career." "I'm flattered. I was unaware of having any career at all.

Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.