Quotes About Identity

También de este lado hay sueños.

Jeanine Cummins

that line his abuela's street. He's

which she leaves)

She spits through the fence. Only to leave a piece of herself there on American dirt.

Lydia understands that it's not a disguise at all. She and Luca are actual migrants. That is what they are. And that simple fact, among all the other severe new realities of her life, knocks the breath clean out of her lungs. All her life she's pitied those poor people.

San Pedro Sula: second-largest city in Honduras, a million and a half people, murder capital of the world. Out loud, he says, "Ah, you are Honduran." "No," Rebeca corrects him. "Ch'orti'." Luca makes his face into a question. "Indian," she explains. "My people are Ch'orti'." Luca nods, even though he doesn't really understand the difference.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.

We're born in the museum, it's our homeland after all...

C'est pour l'amour de la liberté qu'il devient « nègre » et se réduit en esclavage : pendant des années, son génie et son nom resteront invisibles dans les ténèbres de la sous-littérature

Oh ! Franz, ce que tu peux être poule mouillée parfois ! Tu n'as donc pas envie de participer à ce grand bouleversement qui se prépare, de sortir de ta cage, de prendre ton envol ? Rappelle-toi que tu es le fils d'un Aigle ! Où sont tes ailes ? - Je ne suis pas le fils d'un Aigle, mais d'un vautour, qui pendant vingt ans s'est nourri de cadavres. Du moins c'est ainsi qu'on me le présente ici.

We are all Americans

It is not self defining but by You

Si les plantes sont un monde sans chef, le nôtre est un monde sans pères ni repères : plus aucun modèle d'identification pour tant de jeunes déboussolés !

This is who I am, and I couldn't change if I tried. However, if I had a choice, I wouldn't trade my gift for anything, because I help people. I know what they want, and I give it to them, or I find a way to get it to them. No matter what you think, that can't be bad.

Am I odd? Is there something wrong with me, like Mrs. Tifton said?" Skye knelt down on the wet grass and looked straight into Batty's eyes. "No you stupid idiot, there's nothing wrong with you.

If you want to get out of that crib, stand up and be an American.

Love isn't really about what we think of the other person, but how we feel about ourselves when we are with that person.

Solitude helps you figure out where everybody else stops and you begin

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.