Quotes About Identity

Byron wrote 'The glory and the nothing of a name

When you once get a reputation, or it gets you, you're stuck with it for good.

Indeed,' I said. That was Nero Wolfe's word, and I never used it except in moments of stress, and it severely annoyed my when I caught myself using it, because when I look in a mirror I prefer to see me as is, with no skin grafted from anybody else's hide, even Nero Wolfe's.

And I didn't stop hating my name until many years later, when I realized that it wasn't a name to be ashamed of, but one to live up to.

Just because they aren't with us doesn't mean we don't have parents anymore.

What's the border, Papi?' 'Hills,' Her father whispered. 'Hills and bushes, that's all it is. But we must walk across it.' 'Papi, if it's just land, why can't we take the bus all the way there. Why must we walk across?' 'Because we don't have papers, Carmen. And even though it is just land, it represents a wall. We must go like thieves.' Juana wished she could ask what the father meant by that. Hills and bushes, that's what the border was. How strange.

Some spit fire out of their mouths and others juggled balls or pins, their faces painted to look like clowns. Juana wondered if they did that to hide their real faces and not feel ashamed.

went home thinking about the duality of being an immigrant, our split identities, the cleaving of our hearts and bodies—half of our heart remained in our homeland, the other was here with us. One foot remained rooted in our native soil while with our other foot we dug into American soil to anchor ourselves and weather the storm.

One foot remained rooted in our native soil while with our other foot we dug into American soil to anchor ourselves and weather the storm.

But Anne got lucky when she was adopted by people who let her be who she wanted to be, who loved her and praised her for her talents, and who were not afraid to tell her they were proud of her.

You are now bilingual, bicultural, and binational. You are not less. You are more.

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.

He smelled more powerfully like himself now that he was dead than he had when he was alive.

My dad's white, my mom's black, and I've struggled with being mixed race.

So my mom's folks are from one side of Greensboro - and, you know, outside of Greensboro. And my dad's folks, the white side, is from another very small town outside of Greensboro. So both sides are coming from the country.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable." R. Buckminster-Fuller (1895–1983)

Most people look at their current state of affairs and they say, "This is who I am." That's not who you are. That's who you were.

A person is what you experience, it is not what you are.

Cada vez que sufrimos, es porque creíamos algo de nosotros mismos que resulta no ser cierto.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

there's a hell of a lot more to Jase Beckett than just his huge cock and his fat bank account.

Is he one of us, or strictly NOCD? (Which, in case you don't know is shorthand for 'Not our class, dear'.)

Ah, but it was your great-grandmother who went around subjugating half the world. Empress of all I survey, and all that. You must have that quality somewhere in your makeup." "I've never had a change to subjugate anybody yet, so I can't really say," I confessed.