Quotes About Identity

He just needed to hear his voice from time to time to remind himself that he was real.

Warhol, who understood the idea that the self was just a story we told. Reinvention

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

She's a self-conscious vampire ... and she goes about using sex as a sort of shrimping net.

Washington? A city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

Second Avenue, was now the Fondue Chalet. Why, Siegfried wondered, did not anyone in America understand the wonderful

If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!

The person who is defined by integrity understands that everything they do is a statement about who they are as a person.

Changing yourself is supposed to mean hope, at least according to the self-help books and magazine paradigms, but for me - and I suspect many others - it simply means finding new ways to feel inadequate.

In Rahel's song, henna was blood and blood was henna.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.

The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall. Decaf. Cappuccino." - Joe Fox

Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do. And if you don't— If you don't, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel. And then they make the assumption— That you must not feel anything at all.

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.

Boys are not supposed to cry. Because when they do, things get worse. Then suddenly you have two problems. You have whatever it was that made you cry in the first place, and then you also have the problem that you are a boy crying. And someone is bound to let you know this is worse. So now you have two problems.

Some people, like teachers and librarians and other adults, like to say that names are not important. Like sticks and stones. But they are wrong. Every word you choose means something you think it means, and more.

In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.

He says, "But, hey, wouldn't it be weird-if Bennu wakes up from the operation, and he's all tall and stuff, and then he doesn't recognize himself in the mirror?

That's what it says in my IEP, which is more letters. More initials that define who I am.

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.