Quotes About Identity

My truth is the sum of what I am, not a simple summary of what I think.

Der Wille eines Volkes, seine genetische Zusammensetzung "rein" zu erhalten, kann eine Anmaßung sein, doch es ist keine Dummheit; denn gibt es auch keine reinen Rassen, so gibt es doch gelungene Mischungen.

Eroticism and Gnosticism are the individual's recourse against the anonymity of mass society.

Once he settles down in the country he admires, the foreigner bastardizes exactly that which he admires.

Die nationalistische Xenophobie bewahrt die Unversehrtheit köstlicher Speisen für die, die weder Nationalisten noch xenophob sind.

Tu viente sabe más que tu cabeza y tanto como tus muslos. Ésa es la fuerte gracia negra de tu cuerpo desnudo. Signo de selva el tuyo, con tus collares rojos, tus brazaletes de oro curvo, y ese caimán oscuro nadando en el Zambeze de tus ojos.

De muchas cosas me pueden culpar mis enemigos. Pero de dos, jamás: de ser ladrón o maricón"[40

I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

Middle-class women who entertain the hope or fancy of being something in the world, lose Nature's happiness and miss Society's. They are the most unfortunate creatures I have known.

Anyone who has no character is not a man, but a thing.

In a country where everyone is trying to be noticed, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

To write, for a lesbian, is to learn to take down the patriarchal posters in her room. It means learning to live with bare walls for a while. It means learning how not to be afraid of the ghosts which assume the color of the bare wall.

When two words are identical, you must not take undue offence or think you have been wronged in terms of choice. Simplicity is a fine patience of meaning.

D'une manière globale, je dirais que pour écrire, il faut [...] ressentir une profonde insatisfaction devant le discours majoritaire et englobant qui nie les différences et qui sclérose la pensée.

They appear strangely flattered by the ekename.

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

I have my natural blonde eyebrows darkened.

My mother dyed my hair red since I was four because I loved Anne of Green Gables and wanted red hair. Not many people know this but my natural hair color is light strawberry blonde. Got my hair from my grandmother's side of the family.

At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.

You do resemble me," the duke said. "The question is, does your blood run hot or cold?