Quotes about Identity

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the One and Only to anyone.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I - nor for that matter anyone else - will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old school girl.

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

I know I'm far from being what I should; will I ever be?

If only I can be myself, I'll be satisfied.

I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.

broken pocket mirror to try and catch a glimpse of me in the classroom.

Peter added, "The Jews have been and always will be the chosen people!" I answered, "Just this once, I hope they'll be chosen for something good!

Can you tell me why people go to such lengths to hide their real selves? Or why I always behave differently when I'm in the company of others? Why do people have such little trust in one another? I know there must be a reason, but sometimes I think it's horrible that you can't confide in anyone, not even those closest to you.