"Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is not written on my face."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

Identity, Reputation, Name, Acceptance

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Identity, Memory, Past, Truth

"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Identity, Church, Army, Day

"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Identity, Darkness, Death, Mental

"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."

bell hooks, American Critic

Identity, Violence, Adolescence, Emotion

"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Identity, Individual, Experience, Self

"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

Stephen King, American Author

Identity, Truth, Emotion, Wisdom, Power

"No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Identity, Memory, Life, Editing, Truth

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Identity, Writer, Expression, Self

"I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Identity, Womanhood, Strength, Pride

"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Identity, Self, Reflection, Perception, Life

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"There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former."

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"As long as music survives, poetry will never die."

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"A young hero is the world's greatest attraction."

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"Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness."

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"The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them."

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"An introvert talks more than an extrovert because when the mouth is closed, the mind is opened."

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"The fear of losing anything is the inability to prepare for the best."

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"If you refuse to deal with time today, time will deal with you tomorrow."

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