Quotes About Identity

Everything except the freedom to be what she wanted to be - whatever that was. She had to break away. Whether he liked it or not. She had to.

She, too, could become someone else. Eventually. Or she'd told herself all these years.

A door to an alternate self. This self was another Alice, not the childhood Alice: capable, free in the world, independent.

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

What if you could be anything or anybody you choose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

When your life is possession-centered, the important thing is what you have; when it is principle-centered, the important thing is who and what you are.

despair evaporates when we stop denying who we really are and attempt to uncover and accept our true nature.

When something goes wrong, such as failing an exam to qualify as a doctor, a person may seem to be despairing over something that has been lost. But on closer inspection, according to Kierkegaard, it becomes obvious that the man is not really despairing of the thing (failing an exam) but of himself. The self that failed to achieve a goal has become intolerable. The man wanted to become a different self (a doctor), but he is now stuck with a failed self and in despair.

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead, US anthropologist (1901–78)

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901–78) F

Are you discriminating me?!

What kind of people belong to this world?

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

An emptiness when you realize the loneliest you've ever been is within a marraige, as a wife

I really hope no white person ever has causeto write about mebecause they never understandBlack love is Black wealth and they'llprobably talk about my hard childhoodand never understand thatall the while I was quite happy.

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can't drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can't have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

Black love is black wealth

You can be pretty, and have a boyfriend, and still be smart, all at the same time. You don't always have to choose.

The foster home they were leaving was no place to be. The mother, Mrs. Boone, slapped Paris around every time her real daughter did something that called for punishment....After each beating, the daughter, Lisa, would swear she had no clue how her mama got the mistaken notion that Paris was the one who'd smashed a favorite vase, or stained the kitchen tablecloth, or whatever. My name is Paris, not Stupid, Paris would say to herself.