"I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves."

Identity, Americans, Parents, Sense

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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

"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

"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."

Anais Nin, American Author

Identity, First, Right, Woman

"Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Identity, Race, Perception, Life

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"I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home."

Home

"If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem."

Voice

"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."

Sense

"I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity."

Time

"It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work."

Work

"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."

Family

"But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity."

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

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

"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."

"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!"

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

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

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

"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."

"Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored."

Explore more quotes by Philip Levine

"I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home."

"If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem."

"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."

"I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity."

"My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist."

"I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change."

"I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet."

"It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work."

"My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family."

"But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity."