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Identity Quotes
"Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower."
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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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"She couldn't have been more than twelve years old. In her hands was a sign that said RED-HEADS RULE! with a little crown painted in the corner and tiny stars everywhere. I knew I was the only redhead in the competition, and I noticed that her hair and mine were very nearly the same shade."
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"It's always been this way. There were rumors about me even before I was born. It's why my mother never calls me Sobachka. She says it makes me sound like a mongrel."My heart gave a little pang at that. I'd been called plenty of names growing up."I like mongrels," I said. "They have cute floppy ears.""My ears are very dignified."
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"I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken."
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"It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty."
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"I was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton--go figure. My mother was called Wednesday, but was born on a Sunday--I don't know why--and my father had no name at all--his identity and existence had been scrubbed by the ChronoGuard after he went rogue. To all intents and purposes he didn't exist at all. It didn't matter. He was always Dad to me..."
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"We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that."
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"I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family."
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"Who am I? I'm the Breeze, bitch!"
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"Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.andJust because you don't have a heart, doesn't make you heartless.Now, does it?"
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"Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself."
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"My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me."
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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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"Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity."
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"I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian."
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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 am Stephanie Lahart! An intelligent, empowered, and confident Black Queen. Purposely Fearless!"
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"We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it's always you. Maybe it's more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down like a sauce. But it's you as you always were, deep down inside."
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"He looks at me and then, reverting to the voice he'd used with Kendra, says, 'If homegirls wanna see me as ghetto trash'--he stops and switches to his lispy, sassy voice--'or big-ass queer'--now he switches to his deepest Shakespeare voice--'I shall not take it upon myself to disabuse them."
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"This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myself so cunningly that even the cleverest reader will fail to recognize me."
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"But some boys like boys more -And some girls make other girls hearts soar!"
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"When you get your, 'Who am I?', question right, all of your, 'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves"
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"What I am in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart."
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"[They] can't understand you: you're such an exceptional person. That's what I liked about you from the start, I felt that you weren't like everybody else."
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"You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens."
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"I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong."
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"When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it."
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"Identity is not the face, Identity is not the trait, Neither is it the success pace, Nor is it the personality grace. Let alone it being your cliché phrase, Or did you think, It's some religious faith? My child, it's alarming that it's none, It's even not tongue, Then how can it be, what problems you have overcome And the person you have become!"
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"If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else."
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"You can make of fool of others but not you. ... You can forgive others for their mistakes, but not you for your own mistakes."
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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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"I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style."
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"God created you not as an ordinary personality, but eminent, peculiar, and with a special assignment."
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"Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year."
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"If some people are 'outed, are other people 'inned? Can we say that someone has been 'besided or 'overed?"
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"It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be."
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