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Identity Quotes
"The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not."
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"It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity."
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"God created you not as an ordinary personality, but eminent, peculiar, and with a special assignment."
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"There is only one you.And there will never be another one.Thats your power."
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"I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not."
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"For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion."
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"I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years."
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"I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken."
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"Be different.. be yourself."
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"It's your difference that sets you apart not your similarity, stand out!"
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"So, am I too, like all other humans, just a rogue? Sure! Just a notch less than those rascals wearing godly robes."
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"The very point that you are not likened by somebody in proof of your authenticity and uniqueness."
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"People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne."
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"I saw her face then, and I recognized something of myself in her expression. Her eyes flicked over the shelves, seeking possibilities for escape."
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"Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past."
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"I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian."
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"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."
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"He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that."
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"I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer."
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"It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'""That's great," Lana said."Invincible. I can't be vinced.""That's not even a word," Lana said."Go ahead: try to vince me," Sanjit said."
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"I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility."
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"An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity."
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"And, for one" ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and pain and hunger, and the old Ben Parish rose from the dead. The eyes that impaled. The smile that slayed. In another moment, he would fade, slide back into the new Ben, the one called Zombie, and I understood something I hadn't before: He was dead, the object of my schoolgirl desires, just as the schoolgirl who desired him was dead."
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"Dear GIRLS your very own identity is more important than a marriage certificate."
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"There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results."
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"She wanted to be herself at all costs."
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"My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way."
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"It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important."
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"When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'."
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"No, I'm not choosing him or you. I'm choosing me."
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"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist."
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"Last night I missed two free throws which would have won the game against the best team in the state. The farm town high school I play for is nicknamed the "Indians," and I'm probably the only actual Indian ever to play for a team with such a mascot.This morning I pick up the sports page and read the headline: INDIANS LOSE AGAIN.Go ahead and tell me none of this is supposed to hurt me very much."
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"You're Dionysus," I said. "The god of wine."Mr. D rolled his eyes. "What do they say these days, Grover? Do the children say 'Well duh!'?"Y-yes, Mr. D."Then, well, duh! Percy Jackson. Did you think I was Aphrodite, perhaps?" You're a god."Yes, child."A god. You."
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"This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene."
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"On one hand she seems so agile, so athletic, and yet I've seen her appear so awkward that it embarrassed me. She gives the impression of a hard, worldly adroitness, and in some situations she's like an adolescent: rigid with ancient, middle class attitudes, unable to think for herself, falling back on old verities...victim of her family teaching, shocked by what shocks people, wanting what people usually want. She wants a home, a husband, and her idea of a husband is a man who earns a certain amount of money, helps around the garden, does the dishes...the idea of a good husband that's found in This Week magazine; a viewpoint from the most ordinary stratum, that great ubiquitous world of family life, transmitted from generation to generation. Despite her wild language."
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"Coolness is not an image that can be bought or worn. True cool is an attitude that is projected from a person who is extremely comfortable in their own skin."
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"She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome Christmas movie."
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"There is only one you on the globe today. You have been built to inspire and designed to dazzle. Live your uniqueness!"
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"We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us."
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