Quotes About Identity

You need me." Gabrielle said. There was no doubt in her voice. No flirt. No ditz. She was in every way Uncle Eddie's great-niece. A pro. A con. A thief. "Like it or not, Kitty Kat, the reunion starts now.

I know Macey McHenry, but that night, sitting on that staircase, I realized I'd never know what it's like to *be* her.

and when you're the girl known for being invisible, there's nothing quite as scary as being seen. - Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy

I've spent my whole life tailing after people who think they're more interesting than me

People call me The Chameleon here—if you go to spy school, I guess that's a pretty good nickname.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

I don't feel that we were savages. We were in a savage land that made us hard, but we were not savages. Savages today are different, different in all ways. Their savagery is done in technical ways, so they are not called savages anymore. I don't know what savage means, really. There are good and bad in every race. There are traditional values that are good and bad. That goes for everybody.

sabía que no era exactamente así, aquello no era verdad, pero la verdad también desaparecía, y yo seguía pensando lo mismo, y era agradable, me sentía alguien, segura, en momentos como ése, era curioso...

Como nada sale gratis, el coñac le ha asignado a otra raza. Ahora parece un piel roja, rojiza su cara en general, en particular sus pómulos, repletos de venillas rotas que se ramifican día tras día para conquistar ya la base de su nariz.

A veces pienso que el mayor delito del franquismo ha sido ése, secuestrar la memoria de un país enterio, desgajarlo del tiempo, impedir que tu, que eres mi nieta, la hija de mi hijo, puedas creer como cierta mi propia historia...

lo que les permite discernir con implacable rigor las fantasías y deseos propios de cada sexo pese a que, en apariencia, sólo han tenido ocasión de conocer uno de las dos.

Estoy cansada de no saber dónde morirme. Ésa es la mayor tristeza del emigrado. ¿Qué tenemos nosotros que ver con los cementerios de los países donde vivimos? [...] ¿No comprendéis? Nosotros somos aquellos que miraron sus pensamientos uno por uno durante treinta años. Durante treinta años suspiramos por nuestro paraíso perdido, un paraíso nuestro, único, especial.

Lo que diferencia al hombre del animal es que el hombre es un heredero y no un mero descendiente. José Ortega y Gasset

Hace treinta años los hijos heredaban la pobreza, pero también la dignidad de sus padres, una manera de ser pobres sin sentirse humillados, sin dejar de ser dignos ni de luchar por el futuro.

ser una mujer es tener piel de mujer, dos cromosomas X y la capacidad de concebir y alimentar a las crías que engendra el macho de la especia. Y nada más, porque todo lo demás es cultura.

The Nazis thus offered a modern salvation worldview that defined evil lucidly and consistently: significantly, it did this by blending science, morality, and identity, that is, by mixing modern race theories, moral religious sentiments associated with a tradition of Christianity, and key elements of Heimat and German national identity.

Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

You will be identified as thin-skinned and moody; in reaction you will identify yourself as civilized and sensitive. You will barricade yourself in that preposterous condition known as self-respect.

She couldn't quite make it stick, and knew the girl inside her was to blame. That was what happened when a woman went to war with the girl she'd been.

Meditar el tiempo, tratar de saber si el pasado y el futuro son válidos y si en verdad existen, nos lleva a un laberinto que, por familiar, no es menos indescifrable. Cada día somos otro, pero siempre olvidamos que igual sucede con nuestros semejantes. En esto tal vez consista lo que los hombres llaman soledad. O es así, o se trata de una solemne imbecilidad.

Cada día somos otro, pero siempre olvidamos que igual sucede con nuestros semejantes

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.