Quotes About Identity

People look at interracial couples through their own, distorting racial lens. It doesn't matter what form they take.

I was a boy that age once, and I know that 97.7 percent of their bodies are semen and the 2.8 percent is an incendiary device for spraying it.

Every misogynist came out of a woman.

That is how they stay so white: by refusing to accept blemish or history. Whiteness isn't about being something, it is about being no thing, nothing, an erasure. Covering over the truth with layers of blank reality just as the snowstorm was now covering our tent...(225)

Okay, here's the secret. It's not really a secret, but I'll frame it to you as one. The same people who despise you for identifying as mixed? Those are the same people who, when you do identify as black, despise you for not being black enough. And there's nothing you can actually do to be black enough, for them. Because it's not really how you act that they despise. It's you. Your very existence." She

People may be fascinated by your wounded heart, but that won't make them love you for who you are.

Je ne veux pas que tu aimes "ça en moi", je veux que tu aimes "moi tout entier".

La légende dit que Charlie Chaplin et Adolf Hitler se changeaient en lions à la nuit tombante ; l'un a concentré son énergie vers la création, l'autre vers la destruction. Pourtant, dans leur forme animale, il était quasiment impossible de les discerner l'un de l'autre.

Ne kadar farkl? görünmeye çal??san da nas?l biri oldu?un bir gün mutlaka ortaya ç?kar. (syf. 10)

Puoi negare la tua natura quanto vuoi, tanto quella ti riacciuffa al volo!

Ô joie de la cortisone, je suis en train de me transformer en hamster. J'aurai pu devenir une chauve-souris comme n'importe quel vampire, mais non, quand on est un petit roux, on vire plutôt hamster.

Por qué creemos que vivimos nuestras vidas-dije, al fin-, cuando son nuestras vidas las que nos viven a nosotros?

fin y al cabo, a lo largo de la vida, se aprende, se experimenta y se madura; pero cambiar, lo que se dice cambiar, no se cambia mucho porque uno es, en todo momento, el que siempre ha sido.

Define yourself; you have the monopoly on your life's dictionary.

Self-worth takes you further than net worth.

The most difficult person to hide from is yourself.

When a caterpillar looks in the mirror, he sees a butterfly.

You become what you think, not what others think of you.

Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else.

If you're an oak you don't pretend you are a flower

At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a poet until I could establish a proud name over others. The alternatives battled in my mind and made my life restless.

In my new robe/This morning-/Someone else

First winter rain – I plod on, Traveller, my name.

I'm not the 'Yuki' Zero knows anymore... Because the vampire side of me..ate the other part...