Ladies, when you write a poem for Feminism because that is what we sometimes do, remember that it’s never about them. It’s only about you.

Being socialized female and spending my life “othered” by this world gives me a unique perspective. In the past, this has felt like shit. In the present, it feels pretty good. In the future I...

The greatest challenge on the Web in the twenty-first century is to connect with your target audience in a way that enriches both them and you.

What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don’t know what it is I’m capable of transforming into.

Then he led her to sit by him on a fallen gum trunk, smooth and white, and he leaned to whisper in her ear. Transferred the secret he and her mother had kept for seventeen...

Racism and violence were non-existent in this world, When people were aware to fight for identity’- Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, Poem by Marieta Maglas

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.

Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)

I’ve lived too long with pain. I won’t know who I am without it.

For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it’s up to you to have the courage to make good.

What makes this university Catholic is our ongoing struggle with our Catholic identity. I’m for that (struggle). I’m for arguing about this.

What others say about you is irrelevant. You define who you are.

With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he...

If you go to the craft market you will see them everywhere. They represent the mix of cultures and races here in the Dominican Republic, that are the result of centuries of international commerce, colonization,...

I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past.

Cincinatti was where I learned that running away from your problems has a three-month statute of limitations, a lesson I have found repeatedly to be true. Three months is still a first impression — of...

We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize...

Washed and waiting. That is my life – my identity as one who is forgiven and spiritually cleansed and my struggle as one who perseveres with a frustrating thorn in the flesh, looking forward to...

I look like vanilla pudding so nobody knows that on the inside I am spider soup.

Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. “The Serbs...

We don’t have an identity as far as how we play on the defensive end. We always score, so it’s obvious our problem is in other areas.

Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be...

If”If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a lie warn’t a lie, Life would be delight,– But things couldn’t go right For in such a sad plight I wouldn’t...

Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before.

We come back to the same people to learn something about how we have changed. We want to be assured that we have changed. We so want our pictures to paint differently than they do.

I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.

I spend a lot of time trying to not be me. So much so that I have become who I’m not.

It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

It’s better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be.

Time alone helps us to remember who we are.

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh…that is the highest of all freedoms.

Terrorism isn’t about identity; it’s about motivation.

The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what’s beyond ahead.

In just a few weeks, Soldier 13 became aware of a mutation in the colors of his consciousness. As the theoretical classes were filling his brain with philosophical, historical, and political arguments to make his...

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines...

A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves.

I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who /I/ was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn’t me,...

When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…

Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can’t say. I think the knowledge came to him at last–only at the very last. But the wilderness found him out early, and had taken vengeance for...

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

Your self…is other people, all the people you’re tied to, and it’s only a thread.

I invented you the way I like but I have fallen for you the way you are.

I got in a fight with my girlfriend,” I said. “I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?”Well, you should be more careful where you drive,” the officer said. “You’re making people nervous....

A man’s Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the ‘imaginary’ level of the ego, which is...

Changing the entire identity of our town from a historic national treasure to a casino town won’t come as cheap as the offer on the table before you tonight.