Quotes About Identity

The only way to cull the uncommon man from the common is with his clothes off.

Women typically go through four developmental stages; 1. Gotta get a man. 2. Gotta get a house. 3. Gotta get a kid. 4. Gotta get a life. Stage four is commonly referred to as the change of life, or the clinical term men-on-pause.

Just because a woman is good at something doesn't necessarily mean it's what she should do in life. If that were the case most of the women in the Belle family would be hookers.

The most basic question of all cannot be answered: Who are you?

What do you like? What do you want? What do you believe? What do you envision? What do you dream will happen in the future? Those who have lost a strong sense of personal identity answer those questions with blank expressions.

Only after a person embraces her unconditional worth and value can she truly receive love from someone else.

A country where everybody always running from the next body feeling they's better. But mark my words, one of these days they gon all run out of where-to-run. ~ Ulene

You never knew. Cultures were mine fields.

People did not really understand who they were until they had been tested, and then came the terrible surprise that they did not know who this new person was either.

For a moment he asked himself where it would be better. Cities of the North, with their sections for blacks only. The South in ruins and seething with bitter ex-Confederates and confused and rootless freedmen. Unknown places with unknown rules, and all in a perilous state of flux.

Vesey said there would be the men coming home, towns going up. That's the place for a free nigger, is freighting. That's what the free niggers did in the South, done it for years. White men don't care if you freight or barber. Now I don't want to be a barber. I'd cut somebody's ear off by mistake and they'd lynch me. "Don't make jokes like that," said Britt.

However, the general population had not settled the matter of free black people in their minds yet. All was in flux. Flux: a soldering aid that promotes the fusion of two surfaces, an unstable substance that catches fire.

Così la trascinarono di nuovo verso il suo destino. Verso il carro, verso il mondo necessario dell'uomo bianco che sembrava non volerla.

His future was all there like a three-draw spyglass shut up and compact and he would draw it out cylinder by cylinder. Behind him were the flames of a burning barn in Kentucky and a childhood of bastardy. The worst was knowing all the time he was a good fiddler, even a superb fiddler, but long before this time and surely now many a good man had gone down to ruin or death unrecognized and probably drunk into the bargain.

In her daily company he found himself also ceasing to value these things that seemed so important to the white world.

I have come to warn you. The Texans are now Americans. So are the people of New Mexico. They have all become Americans and they are under American law. This is the last time. You will stop raiding and you will bring in the captives. If not I will send the soldiers." Toshana laughed. But you are Gai-ker. You do not fight. "You will see." Jiles, Paulette. The Color of Lightning: A Novel (p. 296). HarperCollins e-books. Kindle Edition.

If anyone should ask a Negro woman in America what has been her greatest achievement, her honest answer would be, 'I survived!

As mulheres querem provar que elas existem e a sua presença é mais importante que todas as crenças e juramentos deste mundo.

A culpa foi minha. Por ter desejado ser o que jamais poderia ser. A culpa é do mundo, que me ensinou a odiar.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to become a librarian.

For one hit he'd done a version of Victor/Victoria, pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man when he'd been hired to kill a paranoid and heavily guarded government official.

La familia que existe en la cabeza de las personas es más importante que la que se registra en su libreta de tomador del censo...La experiencia de la inmigración proporciona una visión especial sobre cómo las personas aprenden a prescindir de aquello a que estaban acostumbradas para poder adoptar lo nuevo.

She could not help thinking that the expression "open oneself to someone," which meant to give oneself, for her had only one meaning, a literal, physical, and in fact absolute meaning, for she was in fact opening every part of her body which was capable of being opened. It also seemed to her that this was her raison d'être

I want amnesia! I want a fucking lobotomy. Could I please never think again? Look what's happened to us, us, Tania. Don't you remember how we used to be? Just look what's happened.