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.

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a “label” than of being a human being, that’s the...

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist’.

People know me by the way I live my life, not by the labels I wear, and that means we can hold all sorts of conversations and learn from each other in a way that...

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want...

Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

Our efforts and actions produce results. These results come unlabeled. WE label them as success or failure based on OUR expectations. Don’t forget that these labels are interchangeable if we allow ourselves to be free...

Until he had come up with a name, he was too pathetic to look at — a real idiot. But now that he had some label like graviconcentrate, he thought that he understood everything and...

Living your life through negative feelings and memories is doing yourself a dishonour.If you want to change you need to be willing to leave your past wounds behind you. -If you wish to remain stuck...

Whole milk” then you’re obviously not ready to receive a jug of my love. So I’ll just pour it in someone else’s coffee.

“Mom, Arnie Welsh keeps calling me a geek. He says it like it’s a bad thing. Is being a geek a bad thing?””Of course not, Soda Pop. And don’t listen to labels. They don’t matter.””What...

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it. I don’t believe a rose WOULD be as nice if...

I used to worry about the labels others placed on me… until I realized my limitations weren’t coming from their labels, but from my own.

That’s just the first part. What others call you, you become. It’s a terrible magic that everyone can do — so do it. Call yourself what you wish to become.

You are NOT an abuse survivor or victim. Leave your labels elsewhere because they are no longer serving you.