Quotes About Identity

Just because we're living in the stickes doesn't mean we have to look like we belong here

She was Grandma Will. That term felt foreign and unfitting to the relationship they had. She wondered if her father had ever called her Mother, Ma, Mom, Mama? Maybe in private he might have, but to the world, all the world, it was Aunt Will.

The light that had flared to life in her mind, the mating light, burned brightly, filling her with an endless glow of warmth and love. She cocked her head. "They say a leopard can't change his spots." "Liv . . ." The word ached. She pressed her hand to his cheek and smiled at him with all the love in her heart. "It's a good thing you're not a leopard.

Tell me your name," she murmured against his temple. "Master," he replied, his warm breath tickling her neck. She snorted. "No, it's not." He lifted his head , his eyes hot and amused. "It is to you.

To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs.

For a girl who often felt like she lived more in the cozy world of books than in the unforgiving world of the playground, a book of books was the richest journal imaginable; it showed a version of myself I recognized and felt represented me. Over

Some kids prefer to engage with characters who are dealing with, say, bullying, gender identity, and racism outside the confines of the all-too-real world readers themselves live in.

It's not right to spend money you don't have to perpetuate a lie about who you are.

no matter how huge the changes I'd been through, I was still the same person at thirty that I'd been at twenty-seven and fifteen and nine. And would be (I can now attest to the truth of this) at thirty-eight and forty-four and beyond.

there is a rock bottom that you can hit, even if you are young and beautiful and smart and loved.

I've just spent three hours learning the entire life of some girl named Kallie, a girl with an epileptic tongue who loves booze, Coldplay, and a gym-addicted frat boy named Wes. Okay, so maybe Francesca has a point. Maybe it's time to quit the Internet.

We're stuck on this image of gay women as masculine and gay men as feminine, and we refuse to recognize that they look just like you and me. The black community is going to have to recognize that condemning these guys because they're gay is wrong.

The things is," she said at last, " sometimes people can come back and still be lost.

But she found herself drawn to Ivy because he wasn't like her at all, wasn't like anyone, really. Most people were different because they wanted to be noticed. ivy was different because he couldn't be anyone else

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

To accept the conventions of traditional society is to be less than an individual. To reject them is yo assume an intolerable burden of freedom in often fundamentally discouraging conditions.

Quoting the Slavophile Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn ('To destroy a people, you must sever their roots'), Awlaki claimed that Muslims 'are suffering from a serious identity crisis', sharing more in common with a 'rock star or a soccer player' than 'with the companions of Rasool Allah [Mohammed]'.

And gun-owning truck drivers in Louisiana have more in common with trishul-wielding Hindus in India, bearded Islamists in Pakistan, and nationalists and populists elsewhere, than any of them realize.

The two pigeons killed had just given birth. And now the baby pigeon doesn't know who he is. He is going through an identity crisis.

I was to see Helen again, in another place and time. But now I was settling into my new self – the self that had travelled and imagined that it had learnt much. I didn't know then that I would use up many more such selves, that they would arise and disappear, making all experience hard to fix and difficult to learn from.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

sometimes we hate something so much that we wind up identifying with it.

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