Quotes About Identity

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes

The politics of redistribution is being replaced by the politics of recognition. How much fun will it be to recognize how poor and atomized we all become!

When you take The Creator out of the picture, you are left without a frame

Some people are so fake, when they die another person's life flashes before their eyes

It takes a real man to be a trans woman

In the future the question will not be "what is your chosen profession?" But rather "what is your chosen oppression?

When I look at myself in the mirror, I wonder where everything has gone. Even the things I used to remember with so much clarity now seem dimmer. What happens to memory when it vanishes? What happens to events when everyone who remembers them ceases to remember?

I always felt like I had to prove myself as a child, probably because other kids teased me about being a 'faggot.

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

intrepid outward exploration of the landscape and a revealing inward journey of the self. These are the things that keep me going, the lust for exploration and the quest to better comprehend who I am and what I'm made of.

We become the way we speak.

Your Words value you, and reveal your true character more than your personal name.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Or as Swami Satchidananda once said, "We're born fine until we define ourselves, and then we use these definitions to see how we are different rather than how we are alike. So now we must refine ourselves.") Our participants were people who would not have had a lot to do with each other except for the fact that they had all volunteered for an unusual research project. At first it seemed like the only thing they had in common was that they all had heart disease.

She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been and the person I was finally becoming. Caught between the two of them, I felt rather lonely, as one often does with a new acquaintance.

I'm a woman. Guilt is our birthright.

You men have been forcing us to change our names for the last four thousand years. Why don't we switch it up? You lot can take our names for the next few millennia and see how you like it.

I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been and the person I was finally becoming. Caught between the two of them, I felt rather lonely, as one often does with a new acquaintance.

The days are very alike here, the hours of darkness long and bleak, and I am a stranger to myself.

She often moves anonymously amongst her artist friends. A pointless affectation, really. Everyone ends up discovering who she is in the end, and those who don't—well, if she isn't treated with deference, she can be quite peremptory.

You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as fiesty; we are thickly layered, page upon lying page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together.