Quotes About Identity

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

We all have things in our lives we wish we could change and mistakes we have made, but these do not define us. Let the one who created you and who redeemed you be the one who defines you.

Colin smirks, "The only things I have to do are stay queer and die.

Truly, it is what we love that gives us our names.

Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would be quite different. [But] the same goes for the pluralist...If the pluralist had been born in [Morocco] he probably wouldn't be a pluralist. Does it follow that...his pluralist beliefs are produced in him by an unreliable belief-producing process?

Por qué te escondes tras esos vaqueros holgados y esas sudaderas con capucha? ¿No sabes lo hermosa que eres? - Damen Auguste

But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

What is going on with you?" she says, shaking her head and pushing me away. "What's up with all the love and affection? I mean, you of all people, you of the eternal iPod-hoodie combo.

Whenever I look at me, all I see are things I'd like to change.

Foolish Ever, don't you realize there's no longer any difference between you and your-monster? You are the monster. It's your dark side, your shadow self, and you've now joined as one.

Damen, seriously, you must know I don't love you because you're immortal, I love you because you're you.

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define us.

For the moment, I'm just Daire—a girl straddling two bloodlines. One I was given—one I must earn.

Memories are the only things we really own, the only things that stay constant. Everything else becomes dust.

Appearances are really just manifestations of how we see ourselves. And so, with that in mind, the way you see yourself, well, it has a direct effect on what you become, and how others see you.

Name, please?" he says, or actually, snaps; it sounded way more like a snap, like he's in a big hurry or something. "Um, Danika." I nod. "Danika Kavanaugh?" I say it like a question, as though I'm looking to him to confirm my own name. I roll my eyes and shake my head. Nice to know I'm as big a dork in the UK as I was in the U.S.

Does it really matter if I choose the bus over a BMW, and generic over Gucci? Because the car, the wardrobe, the zip code-those are just nouns, things that are fun to have around, sure, but in the end, they have nothing to do with the real me. Nothing to do with who I really am.

We're like—we're like the Backstreet Boys in a way—only dead.

Lauricia or Aurelia?

Con o sin ropa, sigues estando desnuda.

I can see where this is going, too. Of course, I can, because I am Alex as well. But I want to dress up in gorgeous clothes and strut up and down the runway like they do in the magazines, swishing my tail. I want to dress up with Amina and Julia and giggle and be girlfriends, arm in arm. I want to be beautiful. I want other people to think I am beautiful.

Sometimes I don't know what I am. But what I would like to be on the outside -- what I want other people to see -- is a girl.