Quotes About Identity

researchers should realize that many people—not just whites—prefer segregation.

Race is not a barrier; it is a choice.

It is only a matter of time before this gives rise to an increasingly explicit white racial consciousness.

This is a historically black community," said Lynn Hendy, president of the property owners association. "I'd like it to stay that way."127

Every other racial group can freely advance its interests at the expense of others, but whites are forbidden to organize and work for their own interests as whites.

Among the many reasons for which whites are in positions of power—better education, more experience, greater numbers, past exclusionary practices—white racial solidarity today plays practically no role. Whites are forbidden to think in terms of racial identity unless it is to think of ways to promote the interests of other races. When whites act in their own interests, they are to act strictly as individuals rather than as conscious members of a racial group.

Sanoin ihmisille totuuden, aina, sain itselleni lisänimen: Riidanhaastaja.

We can't be lovers because we both have mustaches. But since you're a lady, and I'm a gentleman, I'll shave mine off.

I wouldn't say I'm superficial, just averagely ficial.

Not only am I thinking about getting a nose job, but I'm also trying to get employment for the rest of my face.

Love one person at a time, that's the motto I'll try to get my clones to live by.

I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I'm too tired to be me.

I haven't been feeling like myself lately. No, I've been feeling like my clone.

As I was driving down Beach Blvd., I saw a building that said, "Self Storage," and I thought, "I wonder if my ego could possibly fit in just one unit.

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

Feeling valued and known are also part of this belonging. If a family claims you as their own but you don't really feel that they know you or see you for who you are, you'll feel like an outsider within your own family.

If the child's unique qualities are not mirrored or supported, they are not available for her as a foundation. Instead of becoming grounded in her own nature, she adapts to what she thinks she is supposed to be, taking on a false self. For some people, this false self (which we all have to some degree) so obscures everything else that it's all they know.

When children are not shamed for undeveloped skills but rather are loved quite fully just for being who they are, then competence becomes less important.

When consciousness is dissociated, you may find yourself feeling as if you or the world around you isn't fully real. This is most often a reaction to severe stress and trauma. The main difference between these two conditions is that depersonalization relates to your experience of yourself as a person, whereas derealization relates to your perception of the environment as amplified below.

When we heal from trauma, what was shattered becomes whole again. We learn to claim aspects of self that got lost or frozen and integrate these with our growing capacities. Part of this will involve a new identity that grows out of this process. As we recognize our resources and our wholeness, a new me is born, one whose sense of value has been restored.

Although the number of these alters varies widely, the average is about ten, and research suggests that the average age at which alters begin developing is just under six years old.30 The transition from one personality to another (called switching) is most often sudden and triggered by some environmental cue.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

I tell her I won't [forget who I am], even though I'm still trying to figure it out.