Quotes About Identity

The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.

I always say that "half of who you are is other people," meaning that the beliefs, attitudes, and biases of the people around you gradually become your own.

Be, who you be.

When did being single become a disease?

People still think what you look like is who you are.

I read once that a third of all gay kids try to kill themselves. They say it's because being gay is so hard in this world. They say that we won't stop trying to kill ourselves until more people understand us, and until we live in a world where it's okay for a guy to love another guy. That's probably true. But there will never be a world where it's okay to fall in love with your best friend's boyfriend.

I'm gay," I said, not sure how else to say it. "You're fifteen," she said. "You can't be gay.

Why is it that you have to warn people about who you are? Why can't it just be something that happens?

I loved Jerry, and I wanted to have his baby." She laughed. "This was before women started looking at their vaginas in hand mirrors and Gloria Steinem told us we could be more than just mothers.

People who look down on us poor country folk usually won't admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.

I love that word. Gaydar. So clever." "I'm afraid mine is broken," Burke said. "It never occurred to me that you were gay." "It's because I'm teeming with masculinity," Gaither joked.

I mean, if I'm going to go to all the trouble of being gay and everything, I might as well tell people.

Like many men his age, he occupied a kind of limbo, not young enough to be the new face in the bars that everyone wanted and not old enough to be – and didn't want to be – the funny old queen whose jokes everyone laughed at. Instead, he was just middle aged and alone.

Sometimes seeing the changes in one another had the opposite effect and actually comforted them. Seeing that they weren't alone in growing older, they stopped caring, or at least caring so much. But often this seemed to be accompanied by a kind of neutering, a gradual disappearance of anything remotely resembling sexuality, until finally the men in question were more like kindly old aunties than men who liked to fuck other men.

you either are or aren't

I am," I said. "I'm the problem.

They originally turned into superheroes when they were running from something they didn't like about themselves... All those superheroes were doing was fighting themselves.

I mean, sure this guy is a little nuts. You have to spend your whole life following bears around. But I get it, too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'd gotten trouble for drinking too much and using drugs. They didn't ask him a bunch of stupid questions about how he felt, or why he did what he did. They just let them be who he was.

So, now that I look like this, I'm okay? I'm not a freak because I look like you do? Well, you can go fuck yourself." Only of course they bleeped out the good part because it's daytime TV, and we all know that no one in America swears.

Straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls. Everyone just assumes that they do. But if you're gay, everybody makes this ginormous deal out of it. You practically have to hold a news conference and take out an ad in the newspaper. Why? Just because it's not what most people do? That doesn't seem fair.

I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls. Everyone just assumes that they do. But if you're gay, everybody makes this ginormous deal out of it. You practically have to hold a news conference and take out an ad in the newspaper. Why? Just because it's not what most people do? That doesn't seem fair.

Sartre wrote after describing his epiphany that his life was nothing but a play, and he an actor in it

Do you know what it's like to have everyone expect you to be the best at something?

A Beloved Son is one who experiences the unconditional love of his Father in a way that deeply impacts him and leaves him with: Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Prove, Nothing to Fear.