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Identity Quotes


"The person you became with her is worth being."


"I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier, mythological life of his own. Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened."


"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."


"Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping."


"She has never understood, nor been able to relate to a herd mentality. She doesn't get along with followers and avoids the bandwagon. She marches to her own tune and does it alone. She's despised by the weak-minded and respected by the strong. She ruffles the feathers of the flock because she champion's the defenseless and pick's on the mob. Does she wish she could not give a damn and live an ordinary life surrounded by nodding and needy ordinary people? At times...but she'd be bored out of her mind when she's never bored alone, and because of that she's patient because a couple of times in a lifetime she's lucky enough to come across a memorable, magnetic and remarkable person - one worth knowing, even if just for the brevity of a conversation."


"We were chosen by God's to be His special possession."


"In the mirror we see a stranger,Not the person we were born to be,For we are all pretending,Just for everyone to see."


"What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for internal, external and eternal " peace."


"I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies."


"Eyes skip a low-key profile."


"You are worthless to others if you don't know your own self and self-worth."


"If you can't be real and firm with others about who you are, you will be doomed to a phony, plastic bullshit existence, where you only live for others."


"You are who you think you are."


"You were born a winner, you decide whether you remain one or not."


"I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family."


"You are not just white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not just black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God."


"Do not underrate yourself trying to be somebody else."


"If your nationality is lost, nothing is lost " if your religion is lost, nothing is lost " if your ethnicity is lost, nothing is lost " but if your character is lost, then you are more lost than Donald Trump."


"You do not need to proof your significance."


"The dead praetor raised his sword. ''Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are. Someone has come come for you, Jason Grace."


"In this age people have become more loyal and attached to personal brands, individuals than companies, brands. [You get the emotional highs and lows, but real issues overlooked]. In a social media driven world, every piece of content we put out there can make or mar us."


"I don't have to say so because people can see it from leagues away. I am ugly, shy and anachronistic, but by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite."


"It's not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do."


"Don't hate me for being different.Just be thankful I'm not you."


"I am eithera stormor a drought.in-betweenshave neverbeen my thing."


"People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted."


"Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static."


"It's like I am inside this ethereal sphere wherein exists no logic, no reasoning, no typicality, no explanations, no realism, no comparisons, nothing ordinary, and no normalcy. And then if you are to understand me, you have to step into my realm and leave all of those things behind. I'm not typical. I'm not ordinary. And I'm not normal. And I never will be . So I don't see the point of waking up in the morning and wishing to be so."


"Every man was created a one- and- only individual, as a person with a specific gift."


"It's so easy for some people to get naked. They think they're so promiscuous and avant-garde and rebellious... but year-round their souls are covered in winter clothing! My soul is promiscuous, now how's that for being a rebel without a cause? They are amateurs."


"A clone may be a good copy, but you are the real thing!"


"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."



"I' and 'my' are two separate tracks. They never unite. One may say, 'this is my wife, we both are one [united]'. But we can't say they are 'one', can we? Both the 'I' are indeed separate, aren't they?"
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